Out of many other high school students, I was selected to intern under Assistant Professor Dr Loo Shu San to complete a research task on Bioinformatics. This experience was absolutely wonderful because I got to meet so many like-minded students from a lot of other international schools as well as being to learn things I wouldn't be able to learn about in school.

I was incredibly lucky to be able to work under Dr Loo and with a student from another school. During this internship, we got to work with a variety of bioinformatics software such as DNAStar and MEGA11. Using these two softwares, I was able to identify unknown species of bacteria by matching their gene sequences with the sequences of known bacteria species. My teammate did the same with different animal species.

A massive thank you to Dr Loo and UoN Malaysia for allowing me to have this wonderful experience!