Amanda (Mandy) Collier

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mandy is originally from The New Forest in the United Kingdom. She received her B.Sc. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of York. During her B.Sc., she spent a year working at Pfizer as an industrial trainee studying the role of SOX2 during the reprogramming of fibroblasts to neural stem cells. Mandy obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the lab of Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn. Her Ph.D. work focused on the epigenetic mechanisms and gene regulatory networks that govern the transition between primed and naïve states of human pluripotency. Mandy joined the Plath lab in 2019 to study the gene regulatory, epigenetic, and metabolic factors important for early human development. Her work utilizes blastoids, a stem cell-based model of human embryo development. Outside of the lab, Mandy enjoys hiking, biking, exploring US National Parks, cooking, watching sports (F1/baseball/rugby), and playing with her dog Alfie.