Dr. Tamar R. Abel is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Kaushik’s lab, where she applies omics and computational approaches to study human disease. She earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Vermont and her Ph.D. in Systems Biology from Dartmouth College, where her doctoral research focused on a rare autoimmune disease using patient-derived organoids and single-cell technologies. Prior to joining the Kaushik lab, Tamar completed a brief computational postdoctoral fellowship at The Jackson Laboratory, studying molecular signatures of Alzheimer’s disease in novel murine models and publicly available human datasets. She brings broad experience in molecular and cellular biology alongside expertise in generating and analyzing multi-omic data, including bulk RNA- and ATAC-seq, single-cell RNA/ATAC/multiome, and genomics. She is particularly motivated by translational research that bridges patient-derived biology with insight from disease models and high-throughput data. Outside the lab she enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, and spending time with family and friends.