Graduate Student, Cellular Biology and Molecular Physiology
B.S. in Biology from Slippery Rock University, 2015
Emily’s primary research interest is to learn how different stress conditions effect cells and the organisms they make up. This started when she did undergraduate research at Slippery Rock looking at different stressors that caused stress response pathway activation. She continued after undergrad as a research technician studying how preeclampsia affects women’s cardiovascular health, specifically how exosomes from their plasma affects arterial health. In the Weisz lab, Emily is currently investigating how megalin expression and function impact the proximal tubule.
When not in the lab, Emily loves to travel, hike, kayak, and go to concerts of all kinds.
Emily Lackner
- U2C/TL1 Trainee