Margaret Ebert, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist
mk0908@princeton.edu

Margaret was born and raised near Princeton, New Jersey. She completed her undergraduate degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Yale University, contributing to the discovery of bacterial riboswitches in Ron Breaker’s lab. Her Ph.D. work was in Phil Sharp’s lab at the Center for Cancer Research at MIT, where she studied post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and developed a genetically encoded inhibitor of microRNAs. As a postdoc in Cori Bargmann’s lab at Rockefeller University, she performed comparative studies of sensory neurobiology in Caenorhabditis nematodes. Now in the Brangwynne lab she is rebooting C. elegans as a model organism for the study of condensates in vivo, and serving as scientific lead for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s mid-Atlantic Exploratory Cell Network.