Head of Community Conversations (Town of Huntington)

North American Chapter President – Laidlaw Scholars Program, Tufts University

Build and support the Laidlaw Scholarship Program community by becoming the head of the Alumni Society's Community Conversations!

Responsibilities

• Coordinate panels and discussions among the wider scholars network.

Background

I am a senior at Tufts University and a Laidlaw Scholars Program Alumni. In June 2020 I transitioned into the position of North American Chapter President where I coordinate panels and discussions among the wider scholars network. At Tufts, I am studying intergenerational instability of trinucleotide repeats in DNA using a homologous recombination assay in Drosophila to look at the genetic underpinnings of how Huntington's Disease is passed from parent to progeny. I am also pursuing an independent project investigating the potential role of Polymerase Delta Interacting Protein 2 in switching from replicative to translesion synthesis pathways in response to DNA damage.