Maria Valadez Ingersoll
Maria Valadez Ingersoll
mingers@bu.edu
PhD Student
About: Maria earned a B.A in both Biology and Spanish at Swarthmore College – where she worked with Liz Vallen to express anemone proteins in yeast cells – before attending BU to pursue her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Bio with Sarah Davies and Tom Gilmore. She is part of the interdisciplinary BU URBAN program and is the President of BUs chapter of SACNAS (the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science). Her research focuses on the molecular stress responses of coral and anemones with particular interest in the regulation of immunity and metabolism. When she’s not obsessing over the health of her lab animals, Maria enjoys biking, snowboarding (west coast best coast), and a good glass of cheap wine.
