{"id":19268,"date":"2025-08-06T11:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19268"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:36:54","slug":"saylor-williams","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/profiles\/saylor-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Saylor Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended Illinois Wesleyan University to pursue a degree in Biology. During my first year, I participated in the SEA-PHAGES program, where I had the opportunity to isolate and characterize a bacteriophage. This experience was my first introduction to research and pushed me to pursue independent research at my University in the lab of Dr. Thomas Kwiatkowski, where I investigate amyloid precursor protein (APP) and its role in Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease.<\/p>\n<p>During the summer after my junior year of college, I participated in the University of Pittsburgh&#8217;s Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP). Due to my undergraduate university being small, there were limited resources for research. Here, I got to experience what it is like working full-time in a translational medicine lab investigating ganglion cell development in the retina.<\/p>\n<p>After graduation, I worked as a lab manager for Dr. Angie Serrano at the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM). My project focused on developing an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) bank for KAT6, a rare genetic disease, and establishing a spectral flow cytometry protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, in the Isaac lab, I study how different stressors and diseases alter the regulation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Outside the lab, I enjoy going to the movies, running, cafe hopping around Boston, and spending time with my cat.<\/p>\n<p><span><div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Publications<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Golden, Carly S et al. \u201cMolecular insights of KMT2D and clinical aspects of Kabuki syndrome type 1.\u201d Birth defects research vol. 115,19 (2023): 1809-1824. doi:10.1002\/bdr2.2183<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8106,"template":"","tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19508,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19268\/revisions\/19508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}