Haley Wilson

Haley is a Research Technician who joined Dr. Rigoutsos’s lab in October 2020. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Biotechnology from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 2018 and has worked in many settings in both science and medicine since. She has experience working in the veterinary medicine field as well as in Dermatology as both a Clinical Research Coordinator and Medical Assistant. Her academic research interests took her to the University of Cambridge, Department of Genetics in the United Kingdom in 2018 where she used tissue culture techniques to grow pancreatic organoids for further downstream analysis using Confocal Microscopy and quantification of cilia and mother centrioles in Plk4 overexpression. She also worked on multiple research projects at Western University of Health Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine during her undergraduate career. Haley is passionate about individualized medicine and therapeutics and hopes to advance research in these areas and continue her education in a Ph.D. program.

2024

• Cherlin, T, Jing, Y, Shah, S, Kennedy, A, Telonis, AG, Pliatsika, V, Wilson, H, Thompson, L, Vlantis, PI, Loher, P, Leiby, B, Rigoutsos, I. The subcellular distribution of miRNA isoforms, tRNA-derived fragments, and rRNA-derived fragments depends on nucleotide sequence and cell type. BMC Biol. 2024;22 (1):205. doi: 10.1186/s12915-024-01970-6. PubMed PMID:39267057 PubMed Central PMC11397057.

Email: Haley.Wilson@jefferson.edu