Louis, USA. As a postdoctoral fellow with Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz in Cambridge, UK, her work on early mammalian cell fate plasticity spurred an interest in manipulating cell fate for therapeutic purposes. In pursuit of this, Samantha joined the laboratory of George Daley at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she focused on the computational analysis of gene regulatory networks to dissect and engineer cell identity. Samantha joined the Departments of Genetics, and Developmental Biology at WashU in July 2015 with a continued interest in engineering clinically relevant cell populations and translating new insights in cell fate specification into better models of disease and development.