Representative, Graduate Student
Yule received her B.S. in General Biology from the University of Puerto Rio, Bayamon, in 2019. During her undergraduate studies, she researched potential factors threatening the Annona glabra tree population in the wetland of Punta Tuna Maunabo Natural Reserve. Prior to graduate school, she was part of the Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at the University of Chicago, where she joined the Sanders lab and investigated how evx1 transcription factors influence neuronal morphology and dendritic arborization in the developing spinal cord of the chick embryo. Yule joined the Evans lab in May 2022 and is now elucidating the quality control mechanisms of mitochondrial-derived vesicles (MDVs) in neurodegeneration. Yule is originally from Puerto Rico, but because of her family background, she travels back and forth to visit her family in the Dominican Republic. In her free time, Yule loves to paint, watch movies, spend time with her cats, Spoons and Pudding, spend time with family and friends, and go on beach trips.