I received my BS in biology with minors in chemistry and Spanish from the University of South Carolina. I then received an NIH-John’s Hopkins Fellowship where I worked as a post-baccalaureate fellow at the NCI and received my MS in biotechnology with a concentration in Molecular Targets and Drug Discovery from Hopkins. While at the NIH, I worked under Dr. Natasha Caplen, elucidating how RNA secondary structures and binding of an HNRNP affects the exclusion of an exon necessary for Ewing Sarcoma pathogenesis. I’m currently a PhD student in Pharmacology. My project involves delineating the molecular underpinnings of GPCR-dependent regulation of neuronal activity. Outside of lab I like to paint, lose at trivia, and bask in the sun like an iguana while eating sour gummy worms.
Pre-Doctoral Honors/Awards:
2025-26: AHA predoctoral fellowship
2024: Gordon Research Conference, poster presentation
2023-25: PSTP T32 awardee
2023: ASPET Annual Meeting, poster presentation
Publications:
Hall KL, Klauer MJ, Tsvetanova NG. (2025). GPCR endocytosis rewires neuronal gene expression and cellular architecture. bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.26.672159.
Klauer MJ, Hall KL, Jagla CAD, Tsvetanova NG. (2025). Extensive location bias of the GPCR-dependent translatome via site-selective activation of mTOR, PNAS 122: e2414738122.