About: Mona joined as an intern from the Université de Poitiers, in France, for two months in May 2024. She worked under the guidance of Danh Bui. Her internship focused on doing pairwise sequence alignment using protein language model. During the internship, Mona collected reference datasets for protein sequence alignment and used them to evaluate the impact of the features which come from a protein language model on the quality of pairwise sequence alignment.