Mackenzie joins as a new Ph.D. Student

Mackenzie also doubles an excellent Pizza Chef

We’re excited that Mackenzie is joining us after an amazing rotation in which he developed modeling tools for single-cell MPRA approaches. His impressive combination of computational and experimental prowess is bound to touch on all corners of the lab. We’re lucky to have him and can’t wait to see what he accomplished.

Read more about Mackenzie, check out his bio and some photos around the lab below, and check out the teams page.

Mackenzie Noon grew up in Redlands, California. He split his undergraduate degree across two schools, University of California, Davis, and University of California, Berkeley, attending each for two years. At Davis, he characterized a replication-stress induced nucleophagy pathway in the lab of Professor Ken Kaplan. At Berkeley, he joined the lab of Professor Lin He, and investigated the prevalence and function of retrotransposon-derived protein isoforms in preimplantation mouse development. After receiving his degree from Berkeley, he did a post-baccalaureate fellowship with Prof. Andrew Xiao at Yale. Here, he investigated the function of Alkbh1 in mouse development and sex determination. Mackenzie hopes to contribute to the understanding of mammalian development. In the Reilly lab, he hopes to disentangle the contributions of cis-regulatory sequences to early mammalian development. Outside of the lab, Mackenzie enjoys cycling and board games.