Zachary Boyce Joy

Zach is from a native New Englander who spent his undergraduate and intervening research tech years researching in Utah, Taiwan, and back in his native Boston. His research interests lie in elucidating basic cell biological underpinnings of clinically relevant phenomena. His past projects have focused in the realm of neuroscience including prophylactic treatment of PTSD, novel NAc plasticity in response to THC, and patient-derived iPSC brain organoid models of Schizophrenia. He is currently in the Lacefield Lab studying the oocyte-specific RNA-binding protein PATL2, mutations in which cause oocyte arrest and fertilization failure. Outside of the lab he enjoys soccer, board games (including tabletop and roleplaying games), backpacking, singing, and pretending he knows how to paint.