Sabriya Syed, Ph.D.

Sabriya completed her PhD in 2016 at the Mayo Graduate School in Rochester, MN where she studied the genome-wide epigenetic mechanisms underlying cellular transitions of the Interstitial cells of Cajal in the gastrointestinal tract. During this time Sabriya became interested in understanding how the epigenomic landscape impacts chromatin organization. To pursue this, Sabriya joined the Imbalzano Lab at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where she explored the role of arginine methyl transferase Prmt5 in mediating higher order chromatin structure in preadipocytes prior to and during adipogenesis using methods like ChIP-Seq and Hi-C. For this work, Sabriya was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2019-2021. After this, Sabriya joined the Lee Lab as an Associate Research Scientist where she is currently exploring how structural variants in humans affect genome organization and modulate transcription.

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