Victória Puccini de Castro

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Victória is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. For her undergraduate degree, she studied Veterinary Medicine in Brazil, but switched her major/minor to Biology and Chemistry when she moved to the U.S. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Northeastern Illinois University, before starting her graduate school journey at Yale. Her research is focused on nuclear envelope dynamics and chromatin organization during mitosis. Victória is excited to help and share experiences with other Brazilian students.