Denise Poltavski

Lab:

Lab Website:

David Ginsburg Lan

https://www.lsi.umich.edu/science/our-labs/david-ginsburg-lab

Woman In STEM, Child of Immigrants, Jewish, Bi-Lingual, West Coast, Los Angeles, Oregon, Liberal Arts College Alum, Worked Before Gradschool, 1st gen US Citizen

I am a third year in Genetics in David Ginsburg’s lab. I did my undergraduate in Biology at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. I also worked at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as a Research Assistant in Takako Makita’s lab for three years. I am currently on the Science Technology Public Policy certificate programs in hopes of having a career at studying the intersection between genetics and policy. I am on the exec team of UM Young Science Innovators (UMYScI) where we provide a weeklong STEAM summer camp for middle school students and just started a virtual mentoring program with an 8th grade classroom.

Program:

Genetics and Genomics

Program website:

https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/human-genetics/denise-poltavski

Email:

dpoltavs@umich.edu