Training & Education
Dani Brasino obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition Science at the University of Texas. At UT, she worked in the lab of Stephen Hursting contributing to in vitro and in vivo studies of dietary impacts on breast and pancreatic cancer progression. After graduation, she moved to Boulder, Colorado where she joined the lab of Christopher Bowman while pursuing a PhD. Her thesis research focused on the development of manipulable synthetic phospholipids using photo- and click-chemistries. These lipids were integrated into membranes as part of a multi-university, artificial cell project. In 2018, she began postdoctoral research at the new, Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research (CEDAR) Center within the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. Beyond contributions to multiple research projects as part of the center’s collaborative structure, her primary research centered around the development of a polycarbonate-based organ-on-chip platform to enable host-microbe interaction studies between the gut microbiome and distal disease. She joined the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in August 2024.