Hayley Ulloa
Graduate Assistant
Department of Genetics Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, LA 70112
Email: hulloa@lsuhsc.edu
Hayley Ulloa is a PhD student in her second year of graduate school at LSUHSC-NO. She currently works under Dr. Ed Grabczyk where our goal is to understand the underlying mechanism contributing DNA repeat expansion, in disorders such as Friedreich Ataxia and Huntington's disease. She received her Bachelor's Degree from Southeastern Louisiana University in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Micro and Molecular Biology. While at Southeastern, Hayley participated in a STEM Outreach Program that introduced molecular biology techniques to high school and community college students. After graduation, she was nominated as an Instructor for the TRIO Math Science Upward Bound Program, a federally funded program that aims to prepare first-generation college students for a degree in STEM.