Kelsey Wright, B.S.

Research Interests

Rhode Island born and Rhode Island bred, I followed the greatest tradition of the smallest state by attending the University of Rhode Island where I received my Bachelor of Science in Cell & Molecular Biology. While attending the University of of Rhode Island, I took the motto “Think Big” to heart and worked in two laboratories as a part of three summer programs. As a part of Coastal Fellows, a URI-based research fellowship, I worked in Dr. Ying Zhang’s laboratory creating metabolic models of single cell organisms and learning applicable python programming. By my junior year I begun working in Dr. Nasser Zawia’s laboratory as a part of the Rhode Island IDeA Network for Excellence in Biomedical Research (RI-INBRE) program, funded by the NIH. With Dr. Zawia’s guidance I researched early life lead (Pb) exposure in tau-knockout mice and its relation to Alzheimer’s disease. Outside of the lab I can be found building and crafting different projects.

Kelsey is currently a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University.