Currently looking at the effects of eSNPs and methylation patterns on gene expression. I have been exploring various techniques and data analysis steps in processing and analyzing MeDIP-chip NimbleGen arrays and correlating the methylation signal from those chips with Affymetrix expression data from the same set of smoking and never smoking patient samples. This analysis has been in collaboration with the Sidransky and Irizarry groups at Johns Hopkins University. I have also started preliminary work on examining miRNA and mRNA data in collaboration with researchers from the Dubinett lab at UCLA. I am primarily interested in exploring and utilizing data analysis of the output of high throughput datasets and techniques to identify differences in clinical factors such as disease, prognosis, and age of patients.