Hannah took a while to transition to the field of genetics. She started with studying mathematics at the University of Maine, working with CompuMAINE for a thesis focusing on image analysis of brain slices. She took further detours to study Applied Mathematics at RPI and complete a Peace Corps service before returning to academia. Following her service, Hannah attended Queen’s University Belfast to study bioinformatics and computational genomics, working with Dr. Ian Overton on systems genetics in response to kidney cancer treatments. After Queen’s, Hannah joined the Tewhey lab to work as a research data analyst throughout the pandemic before joining the Mammalian Genetics at Jax program through Tufts.

 

Having joined the Munger lab, Hannah is now working on investigating the systems toxicological benefit to using Diversity Outbred (DO) Mice instead of the standard first-generation crosses in toxicity studies. She is looking forward to using mouse embryonic stem cell (mESC) lines derived from DO mice, and cell villages, to investigate methods to study complex disease and response to stress and toxins.