Before the Bench: Cyrille was born in Inglewood, CA, before spending most of his young life in Litchfield Park, Arizona. He earned his undergraduate degree in Biology in 2024 from Bethune-Cookman University and spent his last semester as a visiting student in Dr. Peter Reddien’s lab at MIT, studying regeneration in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea and the three-banded panther worm, Hofstenia miamia.
At the Bench: In his 2nd year in the Duke DSCB Ph.D. program, Cyrille joined Greg Wray’s lab in the Biology department, where he studies the role of VEGF signaling during cellular reprogramming in the green sea urchin L. variegatus.
Away from the Bench: Cyrille is interested in all things music: singing, recording, mixing, listening, and writing. He has also recently adopted a passion for running, as many grad students do eventually…
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