Biography:
Keshia Pitt is a PhD student who completed a BS degree with Biology major at St. John’s University in New York in 2014. She joined the research lab of Dr. Makoto Senoo in the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine at Boston University in 2018 for her graduate thesis work in dissecting the crosstalk between stem cell gene program and cancer development, using the skin as a primary model.
Title : Role of aberrantly spliced stem cell factor p63 in the development of epithelial cancer