#  Josefina Mendez 

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Alex Toker Lab

 

 

 



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Josefina was born in Córdoba, Argentina and immigrated with her family to the United States when she was a baby. She spent most of her childhood in Connecticut before receiving her B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Development Biology from Yale University in 2020. While at Yale, she performed research in Professor Yannick Jacob's lab studying epigenetic dysregulation in the flowering plant, Arabidopsis thaliana. Now a member of Harvard's Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, Josefina studies the interface of the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway and the epigenome in triple negative breast cancer with Professor Alex Toker. She focuses on key epigenetic regulators containing bromodomains, investigating how their dysregulation impacts gene regulation and signaling in breast cancer progression.