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I undertook postdoctoral research at Cambridge in the lab of Prof Sir Shankar Balasubramanian FRS, where I was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. I obtained my doctorate under the supervision of Prof Tom Brown at Oxford.

Before this, I undertook research projects at McGill University, Montréal, working in the labs of Profs Gonzalo Cosa and Hanadi Sleiman, and at Southampton with Prof Jonathan K Watts, where I obtained an integrated Master’s degree in Chemistry.

Alongside my role at Bristol, I sit on the Early Career Investigator Advisory Board of the journal Nucleic Acids Research (Oxford University Press) and the committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry‘s Nucleic Acids Group.

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I am originally from Ontario, Canada, where I earned a BSc in Life Sciences and an MSc in Medical Science from McMaster University. During my MSc, I focused on exploring the effects of epigenetic drugs on the expression of neurotrophic factors, which deepened my passion for understanding the role of epigenetics in biological processes. I’m excited to continue investigating the complex patterns of DNA modifications in neurons and their implications for neurodegenerative diseases.

I’m currently studying for my Biochemistry BSc at the University of Bristol. Throughout my studies I have developed a keen interest in the regulation and expression of genetic material, and I am excited to gain an understanding of the effects of neuronal DNA modifications. After my degree I hope to secure a PhD in the field of genetics in which I can continue to investigate these fascinating regulatory processes.

I am entering my fourth year of my MSci in Biochemistry with Medical Biochemistry at the University of Bristol. Throughout my studies I have taken interest in epigenetic regulation of cell fate and the implications of this in disease. I am excited to investigate the impact of cytosine modifications on DNA structure and the biological impact of these.