Carolynn Malia Brooks

I am a 3rd year PhD student in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Program in Bioengineering and an NIH T32 Predoctoral Fellow deeply interested in uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying diseases and cancers of the central nervous system. In Dr. Iain Clark’s lab at UC Berkeley, I develop and utilize high-throughput single-cell genomic and transcriptomic technologies to investigate cellular heterogeneity, gene regulation, and cell-cell interactions in the brain. I was born and raised in Honolulu, HI and earned my B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Tufts University in 2023. Outside of research, I spend the majority of my free time playing competitive ultimate frisbee.