Center for Computational Molecular Biology

Marygrace Cajigan Trousdell is thrilled to return to the Ocean State to pursue graduate studies in Brown University’s CCMB program. She completed her undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Biology at the University of Rhode Island, where she became fascinated with interdisciplinary research. After graduating in 2019, she spent the following four and a half years at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Dr. dos Santos' lab as a bioinformatician. There, she worked alongside graduate students and postdocs to develop, optimize, and implement pipelines for analyzing high-throughput sequencing datasets, focusing on projects that explored normal mammary gland biology and the mechanisms of breast cancer initiation and progression. For her graduate studies, she is particularly interested in applying deep learning methods to revolutionize multi-omics, with a specific focus on single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. In addition to her studies, she intends to engage in community initiatives that get people excited about science and advocate for equity in STEM. In her spare time, you can find her in her art studio, wandering along a coastline, or at home cuddling with her two cats, Carter and Quincy.