Hannah Jacobs
Hannah Jacobs (hnjacobs@mit.edu) she/hers
Jointly advised with Hilary Finucane (Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA)
I am interested in combining population genetics and RNA biology to discover functional variants that underlie complex diseases. I am currently working on a project that develops a statistical pipeline to reliably call rare splicing events in GTEx that might impact complex trait associated variant interpretation.
In college, I worked as an undergrad researcher in Phil Sharp’s lab at MIT for two years, of which you can read the results here.
Outside of lab, you can find me enjoy all the things MIT has to offer. Most of the time I am playing volleyball on the MIT women’s club team (pictured here at the USA Volleyball 2022 national championships)
Professionally, I am part of start-up innovation groups including MIT Hacking Medicine and ECUSA. And I also do outreach-focused teaching, both in Boston and Spain, through MISTI’s global teaching labs and MIT department of biology.