Researcher of the Week: Caroline Larkin

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:29:56 -0400
bioinformatics, biology, computational, meyerhoff, research, scholar, undergraduate

Meet Caroline,

She is a Bioinformatics and Computational Biology major as well as a Meyerhoff Scholar. She is heavily involved in Golden Key International Society and also plays soccer. Much of her extracurricular time is spent at Blue Crab CrossFit, where she works out almost every day. Her future goal is to eventually earn a Ph.D. in Computational Genetics and hopefully one day run a research lab that utilizes computational methods to better understand the genetic basis of many diseases such as Crohn’s Disease.

Her research involves in the study of heterogeneous cancer phenotypes. Cancer is a disease arising from a variety of sub-clonal tumor cells dynamically interacting within themselves and the surrounding environment. Sub-clonal tumor heterogeneity is a relatively new aspect of cancer, and its understanding is essential for the development of cancer therapeutics. To better understand the dynamics of sub-clonal tumor heterogeneity, we developed a computational framework to construct non-spatial, dynamic mathematical models of tumor heterogeneity.

Read more about her research here…