Allison received her B.S. in Cell Biology from Christopher Newport University and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. For her graduate work, Allison worked under the supervision of Dr. Robert Krauss, studying the role of Rho GTPases and cytoskeletal dynamics in skeletal muscle stem cell activation. In the Srivastava lab, Allison hopes to uncover mechanisms of cell adhesion and juxtacrine signaling within the pluripotent stem cell niche, further developing Hofstenia miamia as a model system for regenerative cell biology.