About me

I was born and raised in Massachusetts. For undergrad, I moved to attend the University of Vermont as a biochemistry major. There I did my undergrad thesis work in Jason Stumpff’s lab. After undergrad, I moved on to Seattle, Washington as a technician in Sue Biggins’ lab at Fred Hutch.

To continue my love for mitosis, microtubules, and mountains, I moved to California to join UC Berkeley’s Biophysics graduate program. In the lab of Georjana Barnes & David Drubin, I continued my love for the cytoskeleton by studying kinetochores and microtubule dynamics in yeast.

Since graduating, I have returned back to Seattle. After a little bit as a Scientist on the Stem Cells & Gene Editing team at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, I have left the bench to work at Nikon Instruments as the Seattle based local microscope rep. A career in microscopy?! How lucky I feel to be on this journey.

I’m always looking to build my scientific community, so please don’t hesitate to reach out.

julia.torvi@gmail.com (or @nikon.com if you want to talk scopes)