Kate-Shelly

Katherine Shelly, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow


I received my Ph.D. in Genetics & Genomics from Baylor College of Medicine in 2020. My thesis work focused on Fragile X-associated primary ovarian insufficiency (FXPOI) and understanding the contributions of expanded CGG-containing RNAs and its translated peptide product FMRpolyG to ovarian pathology. I joined the Jin lab in October 2020, and my research interests include 1) using mouse models to elucidate the mechanism of FXPOI in primary ovarian tissues and 2) using iPSCs to stdy the effects of expanded CGG-repeats in differentiated ovarian-like cells derived from patient iPSCs.