Fellow, NIAID Emerging Leaders in Data Science Fellowship
Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
B.S., College of William and Mary
Biography
Rachel received her Ph.D. in Developmental and Cell Biology from the University of California, Irvine. Her doctoral thesis focused on mechanisms of gene regulation during embryonic development, using both computational and experimental approaches such as quantitative fluorescence microscopy, automated image analysis, and stochastic models. After completing her Ph.D., Rachel worked as an ORISE post-doctoral research fellow with the USDA using large sequencing datasets to better understand cold-tolerance in crops.
Prior to starting her fellowship at NIAID, Rachel worked as a research scientist at Sound Agriculture where she generated and analyzed complex next-generation sequencing experiments and designed visualizations to enhance the understanding of how technologies could improve important traits in crops.