Tyler Jensen

Tyler is a seventh year MD/PhD student in the MSTP program. He performed his PhD in the Genetics Department co-mentored by Dr. Siyuan Wang and Dr. Andrew Xiao. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Northeastern University in 2017. During his undergraduate studies, Tyler interned at Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals in 2014 working on tetracycline antibiotic development, and Epizyme Inc. in 2015, working on developing small molecule epigenetic inhibitors for molecularly defined cancers. In addition to his internships, Tyler worked in the lab of Dr. James Monaghan at Northeastern studying axolotls, working to understand the nervous system’s role in tissue regeneration. Tyler is studying chromatin biology during early embryonic development and helping build models of human embryogenesis. By understanding how the earliest stem cells organize their genome during development, we can identify governing principles of cell fate determination, and how to better help patients with recurrent pregnancy loss.