Congratulations to Sarah Hernandez who is graduating December 2015. Sarah started as an IGERT fellow in July, 2012 in Professor Tanja Dominko’s lab. During her time in the IGERT program Sarah spent a summer conducting research in Prof. Wei Sun’s lab at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She has made many presentations including Gordon Conferences in Vermont and Italy, TERMIS-AM 2014 and Massachusetts Life Science Innovation Day. Sarah has also won multiple awards including the 2014 Kalenian award, Sigma Xi membership award, WPI’s i3: investing in Ideas with Impact competition.
We wish Sarah well as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Leslie Thompson, PhD. at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Thompson’s lab works on understanding the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease (HD). Sarah’s project will specifically focus on uncovering epigenetic differences between people with and without HD using ChIP-seq and RNA-seq. Then she will use bioinformatics to map those differences.
