Barbara "Bobbie" Pelham-Webb, currently in her fifth year in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, has been awarded an F30 Fellowship from the National Institute of Healths' Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Her award will support her research project The Role of Mitotic Bookmarking in the Molecular Resetting of the Pluripotent Stem Cell Identity. In her words "Control over cell identity is critical for normal development and tissue homeostasis. Cell division is a period of particular stress on cell identity, as cell type-specific signatures such as gene expression and chromatin architecture are temporarily lost and must be faithfully reset in daughter cells." Bobbie's project aims to characterize the kinetics and mechanisms of cell identity reestablishment after division in embryonic stem cells, which will give insight into unexplored avenues for manipulating cell fate decisions.
Bobbie is conducting her thesis research in the Apostolou Lab at Weill Cornell Medicine's Graduate School of Medical Sciences.
Barbara "Bobbie" Pelham-Webb
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