Sophia Campione

Sophia Campione is a graduate student in the Biology Department at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She is part of the University Program in Genetics and Genomics and the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program. She received her undergraduate degree with honors in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry with a minor in Statistical Sciences from the University of California Santa Barbara.

As an undergraduate at UCSB, Sophia worked in Joel Rothman’s lab before she graduated in 2018. She then moved to Duke to pursue her Ph.D. and has been working in the lab of Steve Haase, where she studies the connection between environmental stress and the cell cycle in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. She also works with and develops computational tools for interrogating periodic gene expression and gene regulatory networks.