Loran Gliford joined the lab in 2023 as PhD student in the MCBB program. She received her BS in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Rhode Island in 2020. Before coming to BU, Loran spent two years as a Post-baccalaureate Fellow at the National Institutes of Health working with Dr. Beverly Mock and Dr. Munira A. Basrai. Her work is supported by the BU Training Program in Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology (SB2).