Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Amie L. Holmes is a lecturer and assistant director of undergraduate studies in stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University. As a native to New England, Holmes received her bachelor's degree in animal science: bioscience and technology from the University of New Hampshire and her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Maine, where her research focused on investigating how environmental contaminants, specifically metals like chromium and arsenic, cause cancer. Before joining Harvard to focus on a career in education, she did her postdoctoral work at Dana Farber Cancer Institute investigating the role of sister chromatid cohesion in DNA repair and the generation of acute myeloid leukemia.

Lauren Sullivan is a curriculum and pedagogy manager in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. Sullivan is originally from Southern California but has made the east coast her home after receiving her bachelor's degree in biological engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and doing her PhD work in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard University. Her PhD research focused on how developmental genes are precisely regulated in space and time during embryogenesis, using Drosophila (fruit fly) embryos as a model system. Sullivan has served in a variety of teaching roles and is currently an instructor for courses in the Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology concentration at Harvard University. Sullivan is passionate about welcoming all learners to science and biology in particular.