Sophie Skanchy

I fell in love with scientific research during a high school project working with honeybees. I went on to attend Johns Hopkins for undergrad, where I majored in biophysics and studied liquid-liquid phase separation and its links to neurodegenerative diseases. After graduating in 2022, I became a graduate student in Molecular Biology at Princeton. I joined the Jonikas lab in 2023, where I plan to study proteins involved in the formation and function of the pyrenoid, a carbon-concentrating organelle found in the algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Outside of the lab, I enjoy biking, reading, playing board games with friends, and eating soft pretzels from the Amish market.