In May 2026, the Cohen lab welcomed BBS student Eliza O'Donnell as a new graduate student. Eliza completed her undergraduate degree at St Lawrence in Canton, NY. After a stint as a research assistant in Boston, she joined the BBS program. She joined the lab in May and very shortly thereafter secured a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation! Eliza is working on the role of EXO1 in mediating functional interactions between MutS gamma and the class I crossover machinery in mammalian meiosis.