Grace McLaughlin

Research Project 2, MISM
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke

I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke. As a quantitative cell biologist, I combine mathematical modeling with experimental biology to understand how cells regulate their function and fate. My past work focused on how the physical organization of the cytoplasm shapes cell behavior and how cell cycle dynamics are regulated in multinucleate organisms with many interacting nuclei. 

Within MISM, I now study how the Epstein-Barr virus shapes B cell fate and the implications of this on autoimmune disease. More broadly, I am interested in making mathematical modeling more accessible to experimental biologists and integrating it into experimental workflows.