Melanie W
Assistant Professor Of Biology at University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMelanie W is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Virginia with eight years of post-PhD experience dissecting the molecular mechanisms of tissue regeneration using genetics, cell lineage tracking, and single-cell transcriptomics. Her work blends large-scale screens and novel lineage tools (including a multi-color TIE-DYE method she helped develop) to map how individual cells change fate during regeneration and development. At UC Berkeley she led single-cell atlas comparisons that revealed regeneration-specific gene programs and identified key regulators like the transcriptional co-repressor CtBP. She is launching her own lab to further probe cellular plasticity and leverage quantitative lineage modeling to estimate founder cell dynamics. Based in Charlottesville, she combines deep wet-lab expertise with computational single-cell analysis, making her research both mechanistic and data-driven.
7 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular and Cell Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS, Biology with a minor in Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology with a minor in Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGithub contributions (5)
HariharanLab/Worley_Everetts_Yasutomi
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 47 pushes in 1 year
HariharanLab/Everetts_Worley_Yasutomi
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:136 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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