AMELIA WEBER HALL

I was born in Austin, TX, and grew up in Sherborn, MA. Sherborn is a pretty quiet town, and I spent a lot of time as a kid running around in the woods and generally interacting with the outdoors. My parents and grandparents saw that I enjoyed science, and they encouraged me by showing me how to use microscopes, and identify plants and animals in the outdoors from a young age. I find it a little amusing that my first love was field biology, and I wound up studying the architecture of DNA in the nucleus... After graduating from Dover-Sherborn high school in 2003, I attended the University of Rochester and graduated with a B.S. in molecular genetics in 2007. My first research experiences were here in the aging biology laboratory of Drs. Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov. After graduating in the summer of 2007, I moved to Austin, TX... I worked in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Aldrich as a laboratory technician for 3 years. Mostly I focused on supporting the electrophysiology..