Alison Araten

Alison graduated from Princeton University in 2025 with a major in Molecular Biology and a minor in Global Health and Health Policy. She spent 4 years in the Toettcher Lab studying gene expression in early fruit fly development and wrote a thesis entitled “The Regulatory Logic of a Dose-Dependent Fate Decision: How a Low-Amplitude Erk Input Patterns Abd-B Expression to Produce Drosophila Tail Structures.” She also worked as a barista and finance director at The Coffee Club, a student-run coffee shop on Princeton’s campus, and served on the executive board of Princeton Students for Reproductive Justice. In her free time, she loves cooking, doing crossword puzzles, hiking, and exploring new places.

Alison is so happy to join the Edlow Lab as a Clinical Research Coordinator and is excited to continue promoting women’s and reproductive health.