Author: Colleen Lawrimore

Colleen is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill. She is currently investigating chromosome segregation, breakage, and repair. Outside of the lab, Colleen is an avid runner, mom to her 2.5 year old son and baby daughter, and video game lover.

Blog / Modeling a pandemic

April 15, 2020April 15, 2020 / Colleen Lawrimore /

How do epidemiologists determine the time course of a pandemic? And what are the COVID-19 models telling us?

Blog / Yeast in science: from glass to flask

October 23, 2019October 23, 2019 / Colleen Lawrimore /

We eat (or drink) them all the time, but what about in the lab? For scientists, yeast has been an invaluable tool for making biological discoveries.