Roxanna Altus

Roxanna is a PhD student in the Genetics Department at Yale University. In 2021, she earned her B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Boston University. As an undergraduate, she worked in Dr. Francisco Naya’s muscle biology laboratory investigating the impaired differentiation of muscle progenitor cells deficient in the Meg3 lncRNA. She is currently interested in questions of vertebrate embryonic patterning and development, and her work in the Brueckner lab focuses on understanding the formation of and mechanisms of symmetry breaking in the Left Right Organizer.