Research

My research

I do synthetic biology research in the lab of Dr. Sudarshan Pinglay at the Seattle Hub for Synthetic biology and computing education research with Dr. R. Benjamin Shapiro.

I also work on the yEvo Mutation Browser with the Dunham Lab.

Publications

• Dreyer, K. S., Nguyen, A. V., Bora, G. G., Redus, L. E., Edelstein, H. I., Garcia, J. J., Anastasia, E., Dray, K. E., Leonard, J. N. & Mangan, N. M. GCAD: A computational framework for mammalian genetic program computer-aided design. ACS Synthetic Biology doi:10.1021/acssynbio.5c00670

Preprints

• Koeppel, J., Keith, A., Sgrizzi, S., Chen, P., Daza, R. M., Quaisar, F., Anastasia, E., Song, Z., Shendure, J. & Pinglay, S. Gigabase-scale deletion scanning of the human genome. bioRxiv (2026) doi:10.64898/2026.05.29.728882
• Anderson, L., Schoch, J., Anastasia, E., Wang, V., Zeng, Z., Gorjifard, S. & Dunham, M. J. The yEvo mutation browser: Enhancing student understanding of experimental evolution and genomics through interactive data visualization. bioRxiv (2025) doi:10.1101/2025.07.18.665463

Posters

• Anastasia, E., Dreyer, K. S., Edelstein, H. I., Dray, K. E. & Leonard, J. N. PyFlowBAT: An open-source software package for performing high-throughput batch analysis of flow cytometry data. Poster presented at: EBRC Annual Meeting; 2023 Jun 5-6; Evanston, IL

Previous research

Before starting my PhD at UW, I did research in the Leonard Lab at the Center for Synthetic Biology at Northwestern University. I worked with Dr. Hailey Edelstein on characterizing synthetic transcription factors.

I was also part of the Xenobot Group Northwestern's Center for Robotics and Biosystems where I worked on simulations of growing rigid body robots.