Margaret Elise Bullock
PhD
Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
Expected Graduation: 2021
If you were at WE19, you may have seen Elise Bullock as a finalist in the Graduate Collegiate Poster Competition!
Elise has been involved with SWE since 2016, when she joined the Yale GradSWE Group. In 2016-2017 she served as a First Year Liaison and has served on their Outreach Board since 2018. As an Outreach Committee member and now as its chair, she has planned and executed several Engineering Days, which is an outreach initiative which introduces students in the community to engineering. As a member of the Yale GradSWE Executive Board, she also aids in the planning of events from personal to leadership development. In addition to be selected to participate in the 2019 Collegiate Competition at the SWE Annual Conference, Elise was also selected as a SWE Future Leader in 2018.
Elise has also been recognized at Yale, receiving the Yale Advanced Graduate Leadership Program Award in 2018 and participating in the IGPPEB Training Program (Convergent Training in Engineering, Physics and Biology), an NIH Training Grant, from 2017 to 2019.
Thesis Topic: Combinatorial modeling and simulation of transcriptional regulation in HIV
Elise has developed a stochastic computational model of promoter activation with positive feedback to describe the regulation of transcription heterogeneity for latent and active HIV viral integrations. By fitting this model to experimental data, she can explore how modulating transcription heterogeneity affects activation of latent viruses leading to improved clinical outcomes.
After completing her PhD, Elise would like to continue to pursue research, either in industry or academia. In the meantime, along with other Yale GradSWE members, she has developed an educational STEM electronic toy that they hope to promote on Kickstarter this year! You can check out SpinWearables here!
Fun Fact: Elise has a cat named Halley (after Halley’s Comet!)
PhD
Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
Expected Graduation: 2021
If you were at WE19, you may have seen Elise Bullock as a finalist in the Graduate Collegiate Poster Competition!
Elise has been involved with SWE since 2016, when she joined the Yale GradSWE Group. In 2016-2017 she served as a First Year Liaison and has served on their Outreach Board since 2018. As an Outreach Committee member and now as its chair, she has planned and executed several Engineering Days, which is an outreach initiative which introduces students in the community to engineering. As a member of the Yale GradSWE Executive Board, she also aids in the planning of events from personal to leadership development. In addition to be selected to participate in the 2019 Collegiate Competition at the SWE Annual Conference, Elise was also selected as a SWE Future Leader in 2018.
Elise has also been recognized at Yale, receiving the Yale Advanced Graduate Leadership Program Award in 2018 and participating in the IGPPEB Training Program (Convergent Training in Engineering, Physics and Biology), an NIH Training Grant, from 2017 to 2019.
Thesis Topic: Combinatorial modeling and simulation of transcriptional regulation in HIV
Elise has developed a stochastic computational model of promoter activation with positive feedback to describe the regulation of transcription heterogeneity for latent and active HIV viral integrations. By fitting this model to experimental data, she can explore how modulating transcription heterogeneity affects activation of latent viruses leading to improved clinical outcomes.
After completing her PhD, Elise would like to continue to pursue research, either in industry or academia. In the meantime, along with other Yale GradSWE members, she has developed an educational STEM electronic toy that they hope to promote on Kickstarter this year! You can check out SpinWearables here!
Fun Fact: Elise has a cat named Halley (after Halley’s Comet!)
