Education: BS Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, 2021
Research Summary: Investigating how the transcription factor Lmo2 influences the speed of early T cell development.
Biosketch: Sami completed her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley (go bears!) with a major in Bioengineering and minors in Physics and in Global Public Health. Her undergraduate research at the Keasling Lab involved engineering bacterial strains to produce anti-cancer compounds for potential therapeutic use. Currently, her graduate work in early T cell development with the Rothenberg lab has uncovered a novel native role of Lmo2, which has previously only been known in the stem cell context or leukemic context. Outside of lab, Sami enjoys playing Studio Ghibli music on the piano, eating korean pork belly dishes and admiring the color green.
