Two New Additions!
The Reilly Lab is excited about two new team members joining in June. Maggie Prentice and Stephen Rong will help the lab grow our computational and experimental investigations of how non-coding variants impact phenotypes relevant for human evolution and health.
New Post-graduate Researcher Maggie Prentice
Maggie is a Research Associate joining the Reilly lab having recently completed a bachelor’s in Biological Sciences at Smith College. During her time at Smith, her work under Dr. Chris White-Ziegler focused on phenotypic effects of sRNA regulation in E.coli. In academic and industrial settings, Maggie has also studied the impacts of novel decontamination technologies on bacteria and fungi. Outside of the lab, Maggie enjoys running, nordic skiing, collaging, and searching for the perfect cup of coffee.
New Post-doctoral Researcher Stephen Rong
Stephen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Reilly Lab interested in developing novel computational tools for understanding how genetic variation influences gene expression and adaptive traits in human populations. He completed his BA at Washington University majoring in math and anthropology with a minor in biology. His undergraduate thesis was on math models of the evolution of eusociality. Stephen completed his PhD from Brown University in the Center for Computational Molecular Biology in the Fairbrother Lab. He studied the population and functional genomics of splicing in human evolution and disease using massively parallel splicing assays. He was part of the Brown-MBL IGERT in Reverse Ecology and was supported by an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Outside of the lab, he enjoys cooking, scifi-fantasy, animation, exploring new restaurants, museums, and nature.
