Ariel Swett

​​Ariel is a MD/PhD student in her first year of the Chemical Biology PhD program at Harvard. She graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2020 with a B.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Spanish. While in college, she studied yeast telomere length regulation in the Greider Lab. After graduating, Ariel worked as a research technician in the Landau Lab at Weill Cornell Medicine. There, she developed novel wet lab methods to expand the modes of data collected in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics experiments and implemented them to study liquid and solid tumors. She matriculated at Harvard Medical School in 2022. Throughout her rotation in the Tothova Lab, Ariel is excited to expand her chemical biology toolkit and apply it to the study of cohesin and chromatin.