Holly Black

Holly is from Maine and graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in Neuroscience and Spanish in February 2020. At Middlebury, she completed her senior thesis in Neuroscience in Dr. Amanda Crocker's lab, where she studied the underlying genetics of stress behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. During the summer of 2018, she worked as a research fellow in Wendy Macklin's developmental biology lab at the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado. There, she studied the relationship between the mTOR and BMP signaling pathways in oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination using zebrafish and mice as model organisms. When she's not in the lab, she enjoys climbing, skiing, riding her bike, and finding a good used book. She hopes to enter graduate school in cancer biology after spending time investigating the roles of ubqlns in B-cell cancers with Alex!