Sabrina Solley

@sabrina-solley.bsky.social‬, scholar, pubmed

ssolley@princeton.edu

Sabrina is a graduate student in the Department of Molecular Biology joint between the labs of Dr. Britt Adamson and Dr. Jared Toettcher. As an undergraduate student at UC Santa Barbara, Sabrina studied how cells sense and respond to toxic RNAs in the lab of Dr. Diego Acosta-Alvear. She furthered her research in stress biology as a Master’s student in the Acosta-Alvear lab, studying the relationship between endoplasmic reticulum stress and cell cycle progression. At the end of her Master’s degree, she was involved in the development of Cas13-based diagnostics for COVID-19 detection and surveillance. In her PhD work, Sabrina is interested in using high-throughput genetics and transcriptomics to study Erk signaling dynamics.

Sabrina is funded by an NIH F31, and the recipient of both a departmental Teaching Award and the Thomas Silhavy Graduate Advocacy Prize. She has been actively involved in teaching and developing lab sciences for Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative, and has done outreach with the departmental Molecular Biology Outreach Program. Outside the lab, you can find her knitting her next sweater, petting her cats, or looking for a good cup of coffee.