about me
If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.
―Toni Morrison
WHAT UP!
🌴 My name is JP Flores (he/him), and I recently completed my PhD in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Graduate Certificate in Innovation for the Public Good.
🗣️ I am also a Co-Founder of the nonprofit organization, Science For Good
🧠 For my next step, I will be in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹 as a Fulbright Scholar working with Dr. Michele Gabriele at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget). I will then be moving to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH, US) as a HHMI Gilliam Postdoc in the lab of Dr. Marissa Scavuzzo
🔬 During my PhD, I studied the role of 3D chromatin structure in response to environmental stress in the Phanstiel Lab.
🎓 I am a proud alum of College, a small liberal arts school in Los Angeles, CA.
🐯 There, I played NCAA DIII baseball and majored in Cellular & Molecular Biology with a minor in Public Health. I also did research on the venom of fish-hunting cone snails!
✊🏽 Although science is what I want to do for the rest of my career, I am extremely passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in STEM (DEIA), science policy, and empowering the next generation of scientists.
🎶 Outside of lab, I am a HUGE fan of music. Here’s what I’ve been listening to:
