Danielle Brister

Danielle received her undergraduate degrees in Chemistry (B.S.), Biological Sciences (B.S.) and Global Health (B.A.) with a minor in Asian Languages (Chinese) from Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University in the United States. Her honors thesis focused on developing statistical methods for the discovery of novel biomarkers of heterogenous diseases, such as cancer. She then received a United States Fulbright Award to earn an MSc in Global Health from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, where she studied the specific antibodies against common allergens among children with Asthma, Urticaria and Atopic Dermatitis in the Taipei Basin area. Now at Cambridge, Danielle is studying the molecular mechanisms of neurological diseases caused by mutations in the genes that code for the 17 mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.