Bio

Hi, neighbor! My name is Lauren and I’m currently a first-year PhD student at the University of Rhode Island, advised by Dr. Hollie Putnam. Broadly, I am interested in using stable isotope analysis to understand coral nutritional flexibility under multiple bleaching scenarios in the field (beautiful Mo’orea, French Polynesia). I hope to couple SIA with metabolomics and proteomics to test hypotheses related to the availability of epigenetic modifiers and cofactors and connect them to resulting epigenetic marks. In particular I’m also interested in the relationship and interplay of long noncoding RNAs and gene body methylation.
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Education

B.S. Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley (2021) Short-term elevations in glucocorticoids do not alter telomere lengths: A systematic review and meta-analysis of non-primate vertebrate studies

Research Experience

Jan. 2020-May 2021 Undergraduate Research Apprentice (Vasquez-Medina Lab), UC Berkeley
May 2020-August 2020 NOAA Hollings Scholar Fellow, Southwest Fisheries Science Center
June 2019-August 2019 NSF REU Fellow, Duke University Marine Lab
Sept. 2017-May 2019 Undergraduate Research Apprentice (Patel Lab), UC Berkeley

Education and Advising Experience

May 2020-May 2021 College of Letters and Science Peer Adviser
May 2020-May 2021 Integrative Biology Peer Adviser
Feb. 2020-May 2020 Education Workshop Committee, Berkeley Student Food Collective
Jan. 2018-May 2021 Youth Educator, Bay Area Science in Schools
June 2018-Aug. 2018 Informal Education Intern, Birch Aquarium at Scripps

Recent Projects

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