​About Sarah

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Originally from Pittsburgh, Sarah received her undergraduate degree in Biology from Bucknell University. There, she worked in Dr. Marie Pizzorno’s lab studying host-virus interactions between deformed wing virus (DWV) and honeybees (Apis mellifera). While at Bucknell, she also worked with Dr. Mark Haussmann investigating intergenerational stress in red flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum).

Interested in immune signaling and host-pathogen interactions, she moved to Boston and joined Dr. Philip Kranzusch’s lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where she studied molecular mechanisms of anti-phage defense systems. Now, Sarah is a graduate student in Harvard’s BBS program. She is broadly interested in the gut microbiome and the molecular and cellular mechanisms that govern host-microbe interactions.

Outside of the lab, Sarah can be found trying new restaurants and bars in Boston, going to the beach, and reluctantly playing soccer for the same co-ed team every year.