#  Katie Weiner 

Molecules, Cells and Organisms, Fred Winston Lab, formerly John Rinn Lab

 

 

 



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Catherine Weiner (Katie) was raised in Briarcliff Manor, New York. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Rochester in 2014, with a major in Biochemistry and a minor in Mathematics. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In addition to her rigorous academics, Katie was a four-year member of the Women’s Basketball team, earning Academic all-conference honors in the three years she was eligible and playing in the NCAA tournament twice. At Harvard, she currently works in the lab of John Rinn, where her work focuses on understanding the three dimensional organization of the genome using novel live-cell imaging techniques. She is particularly interested in the role noncoding RNAs play in mediating these interactions. Dr. John Rinn is currently located at University of Colorado Boulder. John was supportive of Katie's decision to switch to the Winston lab so she could continue her PhD at Harvard. In the Winston lab, she researches the role of the highly conserved histone chaperone Spt6 on genome instability - a hallmark of human cancers.