Final Poster Session and Closing Ceremony NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Summer Internship at UNM
Date: Monday, August 4th, 2025
Location: UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
At this final event, all five interns were recognized and presented their research, covering a wide range of topics in biomedical data science. They had developed research plans, read papers, engaged with advisors and fellow interns, wrangled data and databases, coded software, implemented machine learning workflows, analyzed and visualized results, recorded their work in lab notebooks, and produced scholarly reports and posters, all in two months. All five fulfilled the requirements for successful completion of the internship, so this event was both a poster session and closing ceremony.
| Name of Intern | Poster Title | Link to Poster |
|---|---|---|
| Carmen Avitia | Predicting the outcomes of patients infected with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) from genome sequencing data and patient metadata | |
| Nidhi Davarapalli | Transformer Model for Predicting Early Epigenetic Remodeling in Oral Cancer Using Chromatin Data | |
| Gnanitha Garikipati | Drug Discovery Based on Compound Similarity using Biomedical Knowledge Graphs | |
| Manjil Man Pradhan | Estimating the Hidden Proportion of Ligand-Binding Residues in Unlabeled Protein Sites via PULSNAR Positive-Unlabeled Learning | |
| Jack Ringer | Analyzing Patterns of Computational Similarity between Kinase Ligands |
We thank the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC) , for use of the new Technology Room and Visualization Wall, and particularly Executive Director Melissa Rethlefsen, and Moses Moya, Division Head of Public Services. We also thank the NIH for their financial support and scientific vision, and corporate sponsor Deucemont Data Science Systems , in partnership with the Albuquerque Community Foundation , for sponsoring the intern stipends.
