Isabella Stelter
Fourth Year Student, University of California, Berkeley, California
Ms. Stelter is an incoming fourth year student at University of California, Berkeley earning a BA in molecular neurobiology and a BA in sociology. She is interested in research and medicine related to oncology and is an aspiring MD/PhD candidate. She began her research career in 2018 at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies in the Asahina lab. There she worked on a machine learning algorithm to quantify behavior for neurobehavioral studies. She then joined the Mouw lab at Dana Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard Medical School, studying DNA repair mechanisms in bladder cancer. She went on to join the Dodd lab at UC Berkeley studying redwood tree genetics in response to climate change. She also studied in the Aghi lab at UCSF studying the tumor microenvironment in glioblastoma, and has since returned to the Mouw lab investigating DNA repair mechanisms in bladder cancer, specifically related to the MAPK pathway as well as studying ATM and ERCC2 related sensitivity to treatments.