Lyra is a 1st year PhD student in Genetics & Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai. She received her B.A. in Integrative Biology and minor in Data Science from UC Berkeley in 2021. After graduation, she worked in Dr Pao-Yang Chen’s Lab in Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where she utilized computational epigenetic methods to study the enhancers and genomic architectures of Arabidopsis. Outside of the lab, Lyra enjoys cafe and bar hopping, and trying out different workouts via ClassPass.