Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University
Project Title: Dissecting the Mechanism of Herpesvirus Genome Packaging
Award Year: 2022
Biography
Allison obtained her B.S. at the University of Jamestown in North Dakota. She completed her Ph.D. in Biophysics with Samuel Butcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked to biochemically define the maturation of U6 snRNA. She then moved to the University of California, Berkeley as the Rhee Family Fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation with Britt Glaunsinger. She opened her lab in the Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale University in 2022, where she continues to use diverse approaches ranging from structural biology to functional genomics to understand late stages in the herpesvirus lytic cycle.