Maria Costanzo PhD, BA

Costanzo earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology in the laboratory of Janice Pero at Harvard University, studying transcriptional regulation in the Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPO1, and holds a B.A. degree in microbiology from the University of Pennsylvania
Prior to joining the Broad Institute in 2015, Costanzo was a biocuration scientist with the Saccharomyces, Candida, and Aspergillus Genome Databases at Stanford University. She was also employed by Proteome, Inc. and Incyte Genomics, and performed basic research on the genetics and molecular biology of the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer’s/baker’s yeast) at Cornell University