Ben is a Columbia PhD Student in the Biological Sciences. Prior to Columbia, he studied biochemistry and molecular biology at Hamilton College, followed by a year out of science on a Thomas J Watson fellowship. His interest in cancer transcriptomics was sparked by his work at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Haber-Maheswaran Lab where he performed both computational analyses and bench work on circulating tumor cells. He is currently jointly mentored by Dr. Jellert Gaublomme and Dr. Simon Tavare and is interested in developing new cell segmentation methods as well as exploring ways to leverage single cell sequencing to understand how genomic perturbances affect the transcriptome.
