Shadwa grew up in North Carolina and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. As an undergraduate, she studied an actin–microtubule crosslinker in Drosophila, sparking her interest in the molecular...

Lewis completed his undergraduate studies at the University of San Francisco and earned his bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and a minor in biochemistry. Following graduation, he began his graduate training in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences...

Hanjun Lee grew up in South Korea and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Phi Beta Kappa. Before joining Harvard, he studied the cell cycle and chromatin organization with Dr. Michael...

Caroline grew up in Seattle, Washington before moving to Connecticut for her undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University. While at Wesleyan, she studied gene regulatory networks in Drosophila in the lab of Dr. Joe Coolon and identified off-target...

Madelaine (Elaine) Theardy grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia and received her bachelor’s degree in Biomedicine from the Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences (i3L). Drawn to the complexity of cancer biology, she joined the laboratory of Dr...