Sara Linker's Biography

Sara Linker, Staff Scientist, Lab of Fred H. Gage, Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Sara Linker received her Ph.D. from the Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami in 2014 where she studied the impact of mobile element insertions on the human genome. She then joined the lab of Dr. Fred H. Gage at the Salk Institute as a postdoctoral fellow in 2014 and began working on multiple projects including examining activity-induced expression in hippocampal nuclei using single-nucleus RNA-sequencing. She is currently interested in using single-nucleus methods to explore the endogenous heterogeneity between neurons, at both the level of RNA and DNA, and how that heterogeneity impacts broader behavioral phenotypes.