Abigail Wilcox

Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, I graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in Biochemistry. During my undergraduate studies I worked with Dr. Samantha Torquato studying parasitic nematodes in marine mammals, and Dr. Nathan Derr studying yeast motor proteins. In the Derr Lab, I completed an undergraduate honors thesis on using genetic recombination of fluorescent proteins to study protein partitioning in dividing yeast cells. In addition to my research at Smith, I interned with Dr. Nicola Pusterla at UC Davis studying equine respiratory pathogen prevalence, and with Dr. Norbert Perrimon at Harvard Medical School developing a pooled CRISPR screening platform in tick cell culture. Upon starting my PhD at Boston University, I joined Dr. Mikel Garcia-Marcos’ lab, where I am studying the functional consequences of spatiotemporally controlled G protein signaling in cardiomyocytes.

Publication:

Wilcox, A., Barnum, S., Wademan, C., Corbin, R., Escobar, E., Hodzic, E., Schumacher, S., & Pusterla, N. (2022). Frequency of detection of respiratory pathogens in clinically healthy show horses following a multi-county outbreak of equine herpesvirus-1 myeloencephalopathy in California. Pathogens, 11(10), 1161.