I am a final-year PhD student in the STEMD Lab. I study how having extra X chromosomes affects the interplay between epigenomics and transcription. My research focuses on understanding how changes in DNA methylation affect gene expression in individuals with Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY) and related conditions characterized by additional X chromosomes (48,XXXY and 49,XXXXY). As a bioinformatician, I develop computational tools and pipelines that integrate different layers of genomic data to make complex biological information more accessible and to help uncover new scientific insights.
Kelly.