Melissa Rolls

Melissa was born in Oxford, England and moved to Baltimore, Maryland where she attended the Bryn Mawr School for Girls. She majored in biology at Yale University where she worked in Jack Rose’s lab. During the summers, she worked in Carolyn Machamer’s lab at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Melissa went on to pursue her Ph.D. at Harvard University in the laboratory of Tom Rapoport. After her Ph.D., she moved to the University of Oregon as a post-doctoral scholar in Chris Doe’s lab. In 2007, Melissa joined Pennsylvania State University as Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. Melissa is also the Director of the Center for Cellular Dynamics (CCD) at the Huck Institutes of Life Sciences.