Natalie is researching the role of transcription factors in the biochemical mechanism of how olfactory transcription hubs form. She is a joint student with Lawrence Shapiro with the overarching goal of using structural biology to understand the structure of these proteins and the structural basis of olfactory transcription hub formation.
Before coming to Columbia, Natalie was an undergraduate research assistant at UMass Amherst for 3 years. Natalie was in Lila Gierasch's Lab where she used NMR to study the structure and function relationship in bacterial heat shock protein 70. Natalie graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018 with a bachelor of science degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Natalie is on the board of STEM Starters, an outreach program through Women in Science at Columbia (WISC).
Natalie is on a mission to find the best Italian restaurant in New York City. In her free time, she likes to explore restaurants with the hope of finding the ultimate home-made pasta. She also likes to pretend to be a tourist and walk through Central Park and go to art museums.