Heather Machado

Heather is a Group Leader at the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge where she is studying the evolution of hematopoietic lineages and how that relates to age-related changes in immune function (in humans!). Before taking this position she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Peter Campbell at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (2017-2024). She was a Graduate Student in Petrov Lab (2010-2017) where she conducted work on understanding of adaptation particularly in the context of recent radiations or environmental shifts. She received both her B.S. and M.S. from Portland State University where she worked with Mitch Cruzan and then worked as a Research associate in Suzy Renn's lab at Reed. More information can be found here.