Macy Ingersoll
Macy Ingersoll
Research Assistant
Education:
B.Sc.,University of Vermont, Burlington VT, USA
Research Interests:As an undergrad at the University of Vermont, Macy discovered her passion for research and Drosophila melanogaster while working on her Comparative Physiology capstone project, where she investigated how heat shock responses vary in Drosophila at different developmental stages by measuring MDH activity. This experience led her to a cellular neuroscience lab, where she explored how starvation and dopaminergic neuron activity affect amino acid taste sensitivity using genetic tools.
After graduation, Macy spent the summer working with postdoctoral researchers in the Perrimon Lab at the Harvard Medical School on a Drosophila gut tumor model.
In the Extavour lab, Macy spent two years researching the developmental genetics of the oskar gene in Drosophila and developing new insect lab models.
Macy is currently a Master’s student in reproductive biology at the University of Cambridge.
Publications while at Extavour Lab:
