Anna is a UConn Health Biomedical Sciences PhD student in the Genetics and Developmental Biology AoC. She graduated from University of Maine with a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She then worked as a post-baccalaureate researcher in the Baker Lab at The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME), where she worked on chromatin regulation in mESCs.

At UConn Health, she is interested in 3’UTR-mediated translational control during early embryogenesis. As a second-year student, she was a awarded a position on the T32 UConn/JAX-GM Training Program in Genomics.

Outside of the lab, she enjoys hiking and finding cool insects.