She obtained her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and then conducted an inter-disciplinary postdoc in the laboratories of Job Dekker and Victor Corces. Dr. Cremins now runs the 3-D Epigenomics and Systems Neurobiology laboratory at UPenn. Her primary research interests lie in understanding the epigenetic mechanisms that govern phenotype commitment in healthy neurons and how these epigenetic mechanisms go awry during the onset of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases.