Prof. Rouhanifard received her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UMass Amherst in 2007. She then completed a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine under the supervision of Peng Wu, developing chemical tools to probe glycosylation in cells using biorthogonal chemistry. She then joined the laboratory of Arjun Raj Bioengineering department at the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral associate and a NIH Ruth S. Kirschstein F32 National Research Service Award fellow, where she developed single-molecule approaches to image RNA in cells. She joined the Northeastern Bioengineering department as an assistant professor in 2019. Her primary research interests lie in understanding the epitranscriptome and related mechanisms that govern cellular differentiation and response to external stimuli. The Rouhanifard laboratory develops quantitative, single-molecule sequencing and imaging approaches to identify and perturb sites of RNA modifications to reveal specific biological functions that may be exploited for the development of future therapeutics (https://rouhanifardlab.com/).