People

Biography

Christine Rushlow received her Bachelor and PhD degrees at the University of Connecticut, then began her postdoc training in developmental biology first with Dr. David Ish-Horowicz at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London and then with Dr. Michael Levine at Columbia University. Since 1991 Christine has been running her own lab, first at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology and then at New York University where she is currently a Professor of Biology. Her major research interest is the study of how genes control development from a fertilized egg to an adult. She has been an active member of the scientific community for several decades, training future generation scholars through activities such as mentoring students in her lab including undergraduate and graduate, as well as high school students through a STEM summer program for New York City high school under-represented groups including girls in science. As Director of the WINS at CAS, Christine emphasizes the importance of the research experience as well as networking across disciplines with mentors and peers.

Biography

Federica Sartori received her Bachelor degree in Cellular Biology from the University of California, Davis. Throughout her undergrad she worked in the labs of Bruce Draper, Michael Turelli, and Rachel Brem to get experience in diverse areas of biological research including vertebrate development, population genetics, and computational genomics. After she graduated, she spent a year studying alternate polyadenylation in yeast in the lab of Lars Steinmetz at the European Molecular Biology Laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany.  Federica is currently doing her PhD in the lab of Mark Siegal, where she is studying different ways in which genes interact with each other (epistasis) and mechanisms for diversification and survival (bet hedging) in populations of budding yeast. As Graduate Assistant for WINS, Federica hopes to help young women in science understand graduate school and career options and build a network that will allow them to transition confidently into post-graduate life.