Welcome back to Kasandra!

Kasandra Balzaretti obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in 2024. She is currently enrolled in the Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Master’s program at ETH Zurich. In spring 2025, Kasandra completed a semester project in the Corn Lab, and in October she returned to the lab to begin her Master’s thesis, which focuses on characterizing the mechanisms and kinetics of the DNA damage response in mature post-mitotic neurons.