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Phoebe Tuyishime

Graduate Student

University of British Columbia

MS in Public Health at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Accomplishments

  • Mastercard Foundation Scholar
  • Justin S. Morrill Leadership Fellow
  • Food and Nutrition Database Research Center, UG Teaching Assistant
  • Fully funded admits to UC Davis, Purdue University, Emory University for graduate (PhD) programs
  • Mastercard Foundation Scholarship and admit to the University of British Columbia (starting 2021)
  • Contributed to now funded DRN Launch Awards Program grant proposal, 2019 (written with PI, Janani Ravi)

Presentations

Posters

  • Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experience (Aug ‘20)
  • Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2020), International Society for Computational Biology flagship conference (Jul ‘20)
  • Women in Data Science Symposium @East Lansing (Apr ‘19)

Publications

  • Samart K*, Tuyishime P*, Krishnan A#, Ravi J#. Reconciling multiple connectivity scores for drug repurposing. Accepted at Briefings in Bioinformatics. arXiv 2020 | Live doc | GitHub
    *co-primary authors; #co-corresponding authors.

Interests

  • Drug-repurposing
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Public Health
  • Nutrition

Education

  • BS in Nutritional Sciences; Global Public Health and Epidemiology, 2020

    Michigan State University

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