Hi! My name is Sarah and I’m an Assistant Professor at Tufts University in the Biology Department. My work is supported internally in the Tufts Biology Department by a Merrin Fund for Faculty Excellence and a R00 from the NIEHS.

My long-term goal is to mechanistically understand the intersection of DNA repair proteins involved in replication stress from divergent pathways. My research program is specifically focused on uncovering the underlying mechanisms of how DNA repair proteins from single-strand annealing (SSA), homologous recombination (HR), chromatin structural regulators, and transcription coupled repair (TCR) function together to resolve replicative stress structures that occur in our genome.

I am an expert on RAD51-dependent or RAD52-dependent repair mechanisms and our lab routinely purifies: RAD52, RAD51, DSS1, CSA, CSB, RPA, and Alt-RPA.

Our work advances fundamental knowledge of DNA mechanisms that are involved in female reproductive cancers like ovarian cancer. We are also interested in genetic variations in female reproductive diseases like endometriosis, PCOS, and POI.

My lab combines cell biology, biochemistry, biophysics, and single-molecule tweezers (C-trap) approaches to uncover novel functions of DNA repair proteins.

When I’m not in the lab I’m spending time with my partner & our three doggos, painting, and advocating to make science a more inclusive and safe place for all human beings.