Carolina Lin

My name is Carolina Lin and I grew up in Nicaragua. I came to the US for college and joined the Dartmouth College class of 2005! After graduation, I worked for two years as a Research Assistant in Tom Tuschl's lab at Rockefeller University, where my interest in RNA surfaced.

I enrolled at Duke in the fall of 2007 through the CMB program and affiliated with UPGG in my second year, after joining Mariano Garcia-Blanco's lab. I am studying regulators of pre-mRNA alternative splicing, particularly those that affect the splicing of the FGFR2 transcript.

Outside the lab, I enjoy cooking and baking, as well as watching my pet turtle make a fool out of herself once in a while. She's a red-eared slider and followed me to Duke all the way from New York City. Did you know there are numerous red-eared sliders in the pond at the Duke Gardens?

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