Raphael Rakosi-Schmidt

Raphael Rakosi-Schmidt

I’m currently a senior at Williams College majoring in Biology with dual concentrations in Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. I worked under TJ during the summer of 2021 as a recipient of the Williams-Whitehead Scholarship, where I completed a project in Python and R, analyzing proteomic data to investigate phenotypic enrichment in a murine model of Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, I’m working on a thesis project in the Lebestky Laboratory, where I am using transcriptomics to better understand the role of the toll receptor in pathogen sensing in the D. melanogaster nervous system. After Williams, I intend to pursue computational neurobiology research at the graduate level.