Irina Shlosman

Irina graduated from Dartmouth College in 2016, majoring in biophysical chemistry. In college, she worked in the lab of Prof. Jon Kull studying transcriptional regulation of virulence in Y. pestis. She then moved to Bethesda for a two-year fellowship at the NIH to study transporter mechanism and function, jointly supervised by Dr. José Faraldo-Gómez and Dr. Joe Mindell. Following her time at the NIH, she became a graduate student at the Biophysics program at Harvard and joined the Kruse and Loparo groups in 2019 to work on elucidating the mechanism and regulation of cell wall biogenesis with single-molecule imaging. In her spare time, Irina loves climbing, backpacking with friends and reading soulful Russian classics.