Sarah Kate Nyquist
Postdoc at Gladstone Institutes in Barbara Engelhardt's research group.
I am a postdoc in Barbara Engelhardt’s group at Gladstone Institutes. Previously, I was a graduate student in the Computational and Systems Biology PhD program at MIT with advisors Bonnie Berger and Alex Shalek. In graduate school, I worked with single cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data to study human health and disease. I was lucky to work with many collaborators all over the world to apply this technology to study TB, HIV, acute rhinosinusitus, COVID-19, and lactation.
My current research interests include computational biology applied to maternal and women’s health.
As an undergraduate, I studied computer science at Rice University and completed my thesis under the direction of Erez Lieberman-Aiden. I contributed to the DNA Zoo project and the Biotechniques Lab Grammy award-winning video on the 3D genome. While at Rice, I also spent time in Dan Wagner’s zebrafish development lab.