Nicole Stuhr

Nicole is a joint post-doctoral researcher in the Soukas Laboratory and the Claussnitzer Laboratory in the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, She completed her B.A. in Biology at Concordia College NY before obtaining her M.S. at Long Island University – Brooklyn. She then went on to conduct her Ph.D. studies at the University of Southern California investigating gene-diet interactions in C. elegans. Her research led to multiple publications with research topics spanning from dietary manipulations, constitutive activation of stress responses, investigation of pathogen apathy, and genetic variations regulating muscle health. In the Claussnitzer laboratory, Nicole is working to establish lipidomics and polysome profiling as additional modalities for assessing phenotypic changes associated with natural genetic variation in adipocytes. Her work in the Soukas laboratory aims to elucidate the effects of biguanides on ether lipid synthesis and lifespan extension in C. elegans.
 
Outside of the lab, Nicole enjoys biking, camping, hiking, baking, and basking in the sun beams with her cats.