Bernstein Lab / Graduate Students

Graduate Students

Laura Hofman

Laura is a PhD student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) program at Harvard Medical School. She holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences and an MSc in Cancer, Stem Cells and Developmental Biology from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. Previously, she studied cancer immunotherapy in Dr. Jarno Drost’s lab at the Princess Máxima Center … Continued

Roos Wagensveld

Roos is a Master’s student in Biomedical Sciences at Leiden University in the Netherlands. In the Bernstein lab, she will explore how global DNA methylation dynamics influence T cell state and function.

Myrthe Smit

Myrthe is a PhD student in the Molecules, Cells, and Organisms (MCO) program at Harvard University. She holds a BSc. and MSc. degree in Nanobiology from Delft University of Technology and the Erasmus Medical Center in The Netherlands. She joined the lab in June 2024 and is interested in studying epigenetic mechanisms that drive tumorigenesis.

Daniel Fridman

Daniel is a PhD student in BIG (Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics) at Harvard Medical School. He is interested in applying computational biology to study gene regulation. He joined the Bernstein lab in June 2023 and is working with Justin Becker to study the regulation of transposable elements in cancer using long-read Nanopore sequencing technology.