Research Assistant in the Skene Lab (neurogenomics) at the UK Dementia Research Institute, Imperial College London. I build reproducible bioinformatics pipelines, AI agents for biology and developer tools.
Website: mrinal.is-a.dev
- deRoute: a private AI router that checks the sealed hardware before a prompt leaves your browser. Won the Agents That Ship track at Encode London 2026, built solo.
- pegRNA designer: design pegRNAs for C-terminal protein tagging by prime editing. Open to everyone, no sign-in.
- Positive Control: a journal and skills map for agentic biology.
- FLAIR-AD: companion site for a proposed PhD on how IRF1 binding switches microglia into disease-associated states in Alzheimer's disease.
- A day at the bench: a lab game with qPCR, CRISPR gene tagging, pipetting and fluorescence microscopy.
- Hearth: an AI agent for London rental search.
- AI Studio: playable demos of my projects.

