About Me

Posted on Mar 3, 2024

I’m Kai Aragaki. I’m currently a pharmacology PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins, on track to graduate in 2024.

I have significant experience in both wet-lab and dry-lab techniques, and always delighted to learn more whenever possible. I have about 8 years of wet lab experience, and about 7 years of experience with R.

Some of the things I’ve gotten into over the years -

Wet lab:

Cell culture (2D and 3D), Western blotting, qPCR, DNA and RNA library preparation, invasion/migration assays, flow cytometry, molecular cloning…

Dry lab:

Wrangling and tidying, package development, analysis (RNA, DNA sequencing), documentation (Rmd/qmd + pkg/book/blogdown), pipeline management (targets), app development (Shiny)…

When I’m not doing all that, I love taking photographs (both film and digital), fawning over my cat (Pep) and plants, swing dancing, or learning something new.

Feel free to contact me: kaiaragaki (at) proton.me