I am a chemical biology PhD student who mainly studies in vitro gametogenesis. I grew up in Minneapolis, MN and attended the University of Minnesota from 2015 – 2018. While an undergraduate, I conducted research on the hexadehydro-Diels-Alder reaction with Prof. Thomas Hoye, and was a summer student in the lab of Prof. Emily Balskus at Harvard where I studied bacterial choline metabolism. After graduating summa cum laude with degrees in chemistry and biochemistry, I studied human germ cell development with Prof. Azim Surani as a Churchill scholar at Cambridge, England, where I obtained his MPhil in 2019. I then returned to Harvard, and I am now a 4th-year PhD candidate in the lab of Prof. George Church. My main project is on in vitro oogenesis from human pluripotent stem cells. I have developed protocols to generate germline and somatic components of the ovary by transcription factor-mediated differentiation.

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