Yousuf began work with Drosophila studying the mechanism of larval hemocyte transdifferentiation in the Brückner lab at UCSF during my undergraduate studies.

After graduation, Yousuf worked as a research assistant in the Perrimon lab at the Harvard Medical School, developing in vivo technologies such as prime editing, nanobody-directed protein degradation, and S2-cell based CRISPR screens.

Yousuf was a member of our lab between 2024 and 2026, and helped us improve functional genetics approaches for new model Hemimetabola, and characterized Oskar-phospholipid interactions.

Yousuf is now a PhD student at the University of Chicago.