Irina came to biology from an engineering background (B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering, Princeton University) and values the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to solve biomedical problems. She completed her Ph.D. training in Genomics & Computational Biology with Klaus Kaestner at University of Pennsylvania, where she studied transcriptional regulation in liver metabolism. For her postdoctoral fellowship, she trained with Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute, applying computational analysis of high-throughput data to epigenetic mechanisms in aging liver. Irina is both an experimental and computational biologist with extensive expertise in liver metabolism, transcriptional and chromatin regulation, and computational analysis of next-generation sequencing data.