Single-Cell Sequencing Interest Group (SSIG)

Sydney Nelson is an MD/PhD candidate in the Genetics and Molecular Biology program at Emory University School of Medicine. She earned her B.S. in Biology from Georgia Tech in 2017, along with a certificate in Computational and Quantitative Biology. She has prior experience in translational immunology and infectious disease research as an undergraduate intern at the CDC and later as a research specialist at Emory University, contributing to studies on HIV, SIV, hepatitis C, and malaria. After completing the first two years of medical school, she joined Dr. Steven Bosinger’s lab at the Emory National Primate Research Center as a PhD candidate, where her current research focuses on immune responses to vaccination and viral infection, with an emphasis on single-cell sequencing approaches to characterize antigen-specific B cell responses in nonhuman primate models.