Principal Investigator
Rebeccah Lijek
she/her pronouns
Joined Mount Holyoke College: 2017
Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine – University of Pennsylvania
B.S., Haverford College
B.S., Haverford College
Areas of study: cell and molecular biology, immunology, microbiology, women’s health
Hobbies: cooking, eating, reading, playing, singing, and exploring the outdoors with her husband, daughter, cats, parents and new Mount Holyoke friends.
Student Researchers
Emily Webster
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Mount Holyoke College, Class of 2020
Major: Biochemistry
Hometown: North Andover, Massachusetts
Hobbies: Hiking, journaling
Kyra Seiger
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Mount Holyoke College, Class of 2019
Major: Biology; Romance Language Minor
Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland
Hobbies: Hiking, running
June Graham
she/her, they/them pronouns
Mount Holyoke College, Class of 2019
Major: Biochemistry
Hometown: Olympia, Washington
Hobbies: gaming (runescape 2007), playing with their dog
Sarah Afzaal
she/her pronouns
Mount Holyoke College, Class of 2019
Major: Biology; Chemistry minor
Hometown: Latham, New York
Hobbies: doing puzzles, walking through nature, making comics