Oshiomah Oyageshio

Oshiomah

Oyageshio

UCLA ( June-2025 )
Davis, California, USA

About (Summary)

Third year Ph.D. Candidate at UCDavis in the Population Biology department. For my research, I combine population genetics, statistics, and anthropology to study infectious disease susceptibility in southern African indigenous tribes. After my Ph.D., I plan on working in the Bioinformatics industry. I am an international student from Nigeria but I have been living in the U.S since 2014.

Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

biochemistry and molecular biology

2014 to 2018

university of california-los angeles

Biology

2018 to 2020

university of california-davis

Population Biology

2020 to 2025

Your Major

Population Biology

Language Proficiency

English (US)

Advanced

Spanish

Beginner

French (France)

Beginner

Honors and Awards

Graduate Student Achiever Award (2019)

Honor society scholarship

Computer-related Applications Graduate Student Research Award (2022)

Summer award for UCDavis graduate students applying cutting edge computational tools for their dissertation research

The Class of ‘43 “Making a Difference” Scholarship (2018)

A $1000 scholarship for undergraduate students at UMass Amherst registered with disability services that have demonstrated academic excellence.

Grad School Interests

Population Genetics, Human Evolution, Biomedicine, Infectious Disease

Intended Job Path

Bioinformatics, Computational Genetics,

Job Experience

Graduate Teaching Associate

UCLA Life Sciences

September, 2018 to June, 2020

Graduate Researcher

UCDavis

June, 2020 to June, 2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant

UCDavis

September, 2021 to April, 2022

Volunteering

Student Mentor for Undergraduates

UCLA

June, 2019 to August, 2019

Academic Coach for Students on Probation

UCDAVIS

September, 2021 to September, 2022

Grad School Application Mentor

EEB Grad Preview

June, 2021 to June, 2025

Hobbies

Tennis, Ping Pong, Hiking, Volunteering, Language learning

Organizations

honor society

international society of evolution, medicine and public health

Current Scholarships

$1,000 Core Values Scholarship - Deadline: December 30, 2023
$1,000 Community Service Scholarship - Deadline: December 30, 2023
$2,000 Undergraduate Achiever Scholarship - Deadline: December 30, 2023
$2,000 Graduate Achiever Scholarship - Deadline: December 25, 2023
$1,000 Emerging Leaders - Deadline: December 25, 2023
$1,000 Society Involvement Scholarship - Deadline: December 25, 2023

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