Elise DeArment

Elise is a PhD student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program at Harvard and is excited to be joining the Tothova lab as a rotation student this spring! Before coming to Harvard, Elise earned her BS in Biology from Pepperdine University followed by an MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Georgetown University. Following her master’s, Elise worked in the lab of Dr. Xiaofeng Allen Su at the NIH and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. There she worked on projects related to the effects of aneuploidy in prostate cancer, including work on the functional consequences of gains in RAD21, a cohesin subunit.  Elise is excited to reunite with cohesin-related research in the Tothova lab, and explore the role of R-loops in AML. In her free time, Elise is most often found in the company of her cat, baking, reading, or taking walks around Boston in search of the city’s best matcha.