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Dr. Amy R. Strom is a quantitative molecular biologist from the United States currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University.

Dr. Strom has received multiple prestigious grants and awards, including a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence grant from the National Cancer Institute to fund 3 years of research in her independent career, a Life Science Research Foundation Fellowship through the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research to fund her postdoctoral studies, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program grant to fund her predoctoral studies, and an Outstanding Graduate Instructor award at UC Berkeley for her excellent instruction. 

After graduating with Highest Honors from the University of Michigan for her B.S. degree, Dr. Strom went on to receive her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Soft Living Matter Group run by Cliff Brangwynne at Princeton University, and is mentored for her National Cancer Institute grant by Cigall Kadoch at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard. 

In her independent scientific career, Dr. Strom will utilize endogenous and synthetic systems in cultured human cells to study how interactions between liquid-like condensates and chromatin within the nucleus, i.e. the Liquid Nucleome, underlies functions including nuclear organization and mechanics, chromatin remodeling, and transcriptional activation and silencing. Nuclear disorganization is a hallmark of cancer, so this work has applications in cancer prevention and therapeutics.