Britt Adamson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. Dr. Adamson started her training in 2004 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Angelika Amon. She graduated in 2005 and moved to Harvard Medical School for her graduate work. There, advised by Stephen Elledge, Dr. Adamson leveraged cutting-edge functional genomics technologies to systematically investigate mechanisms of genome integrity maintenance in human cells. She earned her PhD in 2012. Following graduate school, Dr. Adamson joined the laboratory of Jonathan Weissman at the University of California, San Francisco, where she received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Her postdoctoral work pioneered new approaches for functional genomics in human cells, technologies that now enable comprehensive dissection of cellular pathways and delineation of cell behaviors with unprecedented resolution. Dr. Adamson’s research interests center on how cells respond to stress, how such responses are regulated, and how they are altered in disease states.