Lab Members
Manager
Katie Maryak graduated from Tarleton State University with a masters in biology. Her thesis work used next-generation sequencing to investigate PCR interference noted during an EPA report of Texas coastal waters. Publication of her thesis work is in progress, with a target journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Katie received a bachelor of arts in biology from University of North Texas where she studied bacterial community influences on algal dominance under a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Grant. She has experience in an ophthalmology setting from her time at Key Whitman Eye Center where she conducted a clinical study of an injectable, slow-release glaucoma medication. Katie joined OGI in September 2020 as a Senior Research Technologist.
Katie_Maryak@meei.harvard.edu