NSF PRFB Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
I am a plant development biologist interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms that plants use to pattern themselves and from specialized structures. During my Ph.D., I worked with Prof. Dominique Bergmann at Stanford University in California, studying cell polarity and stomata development in Arabidopsis thaliana. My thesis focused on how cell polarity is controlled in the stomatal lineage and how changes in cell polarity alter the developmental progression of lineage stem cells. Here in the Kramer Lab, I am interested in investigating the cellular and molecular dynamics of petal spur formation in Aquilegia. I am actively developing long-term live imaging approaches and downstream image analysis pipelines to enhance our understanding of Aquilegia petal spur structure and development.