Sophia DeGeorgia

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: Charles Kaufman, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Cleveland State University, 2018

Enrollment year: 2018

Research summary
Elucidating the role of putative enhancer elements in the aberrant reactivation of neural crest genes in melanoma initiation and proliferation

Graduate publications
Cunningham RL, Kramer ET, DeGeorgia SK, Godoy PM, Zarov AP, Seneviratne S, Grigura V, Kaufman CK. 2021 Functional in vivo characterization of sox10 enhancers in neural crest and melanoma development. Commun Biol, 4(1):695. PMCID: PMC8184803