sc2756@cornell.edu

Dawn is a Ph.D. student in the field of Genetics, Genomics and Development.  She graduated from Rutgers University in 2015 with B.A. in Genetics.  Dawn did undergraduate research in Dr. Andy Kern’s lab, studying genomic signatures of endothermy evolution in vertebrates.  After graduation, she joined Dr. Andy Singson’s lab to study spermiogenesis in C. elegans.  Dawn is broadly interested in the interplay between evolutionary forces and development processes, and how it manifests in reproduction.  Her research focuses on the effect of octopaminergic signaling on sperm competition in D. melanogaster.