- About
About
Sarah Maguire joined Kristen Maynard’s group in January 2024 as a staff scientist focusing on spatial transcriptomics. Prior to starting at the Lieber Institute, she worked at the biotech start-up Portal Bioscience, where she developed ligation-based in situ hybridization technology to qualify RNA in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues and to visualize high-plex immune-oncology panels in patient specimens. Sarah became passionate about spatial biology as a postdoc in Dr. Chris Potter’s lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she discovered an inhibitory feedback loop regulating olfactory gene expression in mosquito neurons using hybridization chain reaction technology. Sarah received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 and an AB in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University.