Carolyn Shembrey

Carolyn received her PhD in molecular oncology from The University of Melbourne in 2021, working with Professor Frédéric Hollande on tumour and immunological heterogeneity in the context of metastatic colorectal cancer. She then completed a 3-year postdoc at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Melbourne, Australia) with Dr Mohamed Fareh, where she leveraged mismatch tolerance within the CRISPR-Cas13 system to selectively target point-mutated oncogenes with single-nucleotide precision. Carolyn joined the Corn lab as a postdoctoral researcher in June 2024. Her ongoing research interests include functional cancer (epi)genomics and harnessing next-generation genome editing tools for precision medicine.