Minor Tweak, Major Impact

This is a special episode, as this is our first episode with two guests. We had the pleasure of speaking with Kali Mahrer and Dr. Kaelyn Sumigray from Yale University. Kali is currently a MS student post-graduate associate in the Sumigray Lab at Yale School of Medicine. The lab, and her own project, focuses on the small intestine, with crypt morphogenesis being a major area of interest-particularly when it comes to the role of cell shape changes in developing crypts. In her spare time, she likes to talk to others about accessibility in STEM fields.Kaelyn is Kali’s PI and she is originally from upstate New York but spent the majority of her adult life in North Carolina, where she earned a PhD in Cell Biology from Duke University, followed by two postdoctoral positions at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then Duke University. At Duke, she worked in the lab of Dr. Terry Lechler studying intestinal crypt morphogenesis. She started her own lab in the Department of Genetics at Yale University a year ag