2009 REU and REV Program Participant Profiles: Revorn Ferguson

Major(s): Mathematics and Biology School: North Carolina AT&T State University Hometown: Freeport, Bahamas REU/REV Research Project: Codon Usage Bias

What is the purpose of your research?
The purpose of our research is to determine if a particular genome undergoes natural selection of the codons.

Describe a typical day on the job.
A typical day on the job consists of learning information on the research and writing in a program language. It includes reading different scientific research papers and writing in such programs such as Perl and RevTrans.

What new experiences did you gain that have helped you today?
I have learned numerous programming languages, which could be useful later on. I've also learned some information about biology that I didn't know.

What advice would you give someone who's interested in/curious about participating in the program?
The advice I would tell the individual would be go and apply for the program because it will be a wonderful experience in learning new information, whether it’s math or biology, which will be useful.

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.