Alison M. Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. She received her BS in Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned her Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University working in the laboratory of Dr. Leonard Zon and studying ribosomal protein mutations in blood development and disease. For her postdoctoral fellowship, she entered the field of cancer genomics in the laboratory of Dr. Matthew Meyerson, located at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute. She is continuing to focus on understanding the role of aneuploidy in tumor development.