Team

Ale studied Molecular Biology in Milan, where she got her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. She then moved to Pavia for her PhD, working on replication-transcription conflicts in budding yeast. After that, she headed to NYC to focus on DNA double-strand break repair in mammalian cells. Ale's passion for science hasn't changed since the first time she stepped into a lab.

James studied Biomedical Science and Public Health at Northern Arizona University, where his passion for science became focused on molecular and cellular biology and health outcomes. After obtaining dual bachelor’s degrees, James went on to do a summer internship at the NIH Neuropathology Unit, studying prognostic somatic copy number alterations and their associated oncogenes and tumor suppressors. Now James is back in his home state studying DNA double-strand break repair.

Sarah earned her bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Gettysburg College where she investigated biofilm formation and the bacterial DNA damage response. After developing a passion for DNA repair, she moved to Texas for her PhD to focus on the biochemistry of DSBs repair in mammals and developing targeted DNA repair therapeutics. Sarah is very excited to continue working in the DNA repair field to investigate non-canonical DNA repair pathways in mammalian cells!