Melanie Fernandez
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University
Melanie Fernandez is listed as Undergraduate Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University. Melanie is scheduled to speak at SLAS 2027 International Conference & Exhibition on 1 February 2027.
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About
Melanie Fernandez is a B.E. candidate in Computer Science with minors in Scientific Computing and Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University (Class of 2027) and a SyBBURE Searle Undergraduate Research Fellow. Her research spans computational and wet-lab approaches to neuroscience and cancer biology. In the Neurovascular Engineering and Therapeutic Design Lab, she characterizes cerebral organoid differentiation protocols and analyzes single-cell datasets to study neurodegenerative disease models, work reflected in a co-authored Cell Reports publication on hydrogel-enhanced organoid maturation. She also develops computational models of tumor evolution in the Vanderbilt Computational Biology Lab, using single-cell DNA sequencing to reconstruct circulating tumor cell phylogenies. Beyond the lab, Melanie serves as Co-President of Nucleate Vanderbilt, connecting student entrepreneurs with the biotech ecosystem, and as a Scientific Intern at NashBio, studying genetic risk modulation in card