Dana Messinger, BS, is a PhD candidate in Cancer Biology at the University of Michigan in the lab of Dr. Carl Koschmann. She studies epigenetic control of molecular drivers of pediatric high-grade glioma. Dana graduated with honors from the University of Vermont with a degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences and a minor in Microbiology. She spent three years of her undergraduate career studying mitosis in colorectal cancer, which led her to pursue her graduate degree.