








Nuclear Proliferation
Preventive War
East Asian Security
Alliance Politics
Samuel Leiter is a PhD Candidate specializing in Security Studies and International Relations. He is primarily interested in defense industrial base politics, Japan, and wargaming. He graduated with general and departmental honors from the University of Chicago with a BA in Political Science and previously worked at the Civic Consulting Alliance.


Labor Economics
Law and Economics
Applied Statistics
Bhargav Gopal is an economist at Queen's University, Smith School of Business doing research at the intersection of labor, finance, law, and economics. He recently received a PhD from Columbia University.
Prior to Columbia, he received a B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley and was a Research Fellow at Stanford Law School.


Cancer Genetics
CRISPR Gene Editing
Molecular Biology
Caitlin Nichols received her BS in molecular biology with a minor in editing from Brigham Young University. While at BYU, she worked in the lab of Laura Bridgewater, PhD, where she studied the function of a novel nuclear variant of BMP2 (nBMP2) in skeletal muscle, as well as the role of the unfolded protein response (UPR) in mouse models of osteoarthritis. She also worked in the lab of Steven Graves, PhD, studying the ability of a novel proteomic approach to identify differences between complex biological tissues, including normal and preeclamptic human placenta.
Caitlin’s work in the Beroukhim Lab focused on identifying and validating a novel class of cancer vulnerabilities caused by loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of cell-essential genes. She also studied the role of TERC amplification in cellular immortalization/transformation. She received numerous awards for scientific communication in presenting her project, and after completing her PhD she joined 23&Me.



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