Hello! My name is Colleen Isabelle and I was a neuroscience major at Wellesley College.  I joined the Tetel Lab in the spring semester of 2011 and began working with Jen Wan ’12 on her project. We utilized pull-down assays and western blot techniques to investigate the interaction of progestin receptor subtypes with steroid receptor coactivators in the mouse brain. 

During the summer of 2011, I worked in the Tetel Lab through the Wellesley Summer Science Research Program, further investigating the relationship between progestin and estrogen receptors and their steroid receptor coactivators in the brain. I continued my work in the Tetel Lab in the form of independent study projects through my graduation from Wellesley in 2013.

After graduating from Wellesley, I worked in an acute and critical care pulmonary research laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for four years. There I investigated the role of mTOR and zinc in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), as well as the role of surfactant protein D in sepsis. In the summer of 2017, I matriculated to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to join their MDPhD program.