I am a Senior Computational Scientist at Decibel Therapeutics, a biotech company focusing on gene therapy for hearing loss and balance disorders. I work on the Systems Biology team, where we utilize omics data to enable therapy design.
Previously, I spent 4 years as a Computational Biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. I work under Joshua Levin and Paola Arlotta in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, using single cell sequencing technologies to study brain organoids - exciting new models of human neurodevelopment.
I have a Ph.D. in Computational and Systems Biology from MIT. While there, I worked in Ernest Fraenkel's lab, studying Huntington's Disease, a fatal neurological disorder that - so far - has no cure. Before grad school, I received a B.A. in Bioinformatics from Wellesley College, where I worked in Don Elmore's lab using computer simulations to study a newly discovered protein in plants.
I am passionate about issues of representation and discrimination of women and minoritized populations in STEM and other male-dominated fields. At the Broad, I'm Co-Chair of Women@Broad, and at MIT I was Co-Chair of Graduate Women at MIT. It is always our job to make sure everyone in our community is welcomed and actively included.
The rest of my time, I play Ultimate Frisbee, read sci-fi, and knit! I am currently captain of the Get Flat summer league team. I am an alumni of the Wellesley Whiptails, as well as various Boston Ultimate hat teams.