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Sera Thornton

MITx Digital Learning Fellow, Department of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About me

Dr. Sera Thornton was an MITx Digital Learning Fellow in the Department of Biology at MIT from 2014 to 2017. In conjunction with her role as a core member of the MITx Biology course development team, Sera curated and created many of the graphics for MITx Biology courses, including animating the lecture video inserts for MITx 7.28x. She previously completed her Ph.D. studying epigenetic gene regulation in stem cell lineage commitment and differentiation in the Boyer lab at MIT.