Benjamin Larsen

PhD Student

Ben (he/him) is a grad student in the MOL program. He is co-advised by AJ te Velthuis. Before coming to Princeton, he attended Tufts University where he worked in a lab studying DNA repair and secondary structure formation in repetitive regions of the genome. Ben is interested in using Cas13 to study RNA secondary structure and perturb viral RNAs. Outside of lab, Ben can usually be found solving crosswords, climbing, or watching his beloved Boston Celtics. 

Contact: benjamin.larsen@princeton.edu