Caroline Pitton

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Sarah Johnstone Lab
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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 transcriptional effects of the GeneSwitch-GAL4 system. She graduated in 2022 with a B.A. in Biology and French Studies and a minor in Informatics & Modeling. Caroline then joined Dr. Zuzana Tothova’s lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as a Research Associate investigating the biology and therapeutic targeting of the cohesin complex in hematologic malignancies. Caroline is now a PhD student in Dr. Sarah Johnstone’s lab at DFCI where she is interrogating the function of the transcription factor BORIS in chromatin architecture and ovarian cancer development. She is broadly interested in how changes to the 3D genome drive oncogenic transcriptional programs. When she’s not in the lab, Caroline loves to hike, camp, ski, and try new recipes.