Dr. Rachel Fay, PhD

Postdoc

Stanford University

Rachel Fay is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, studying the impact of climate change of vector-borne diseases. She earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University at Albany, where her dissertation focused on the role of temperature in flavivirus evolution and vector-virus interactions. She conducted this research under the guidance of Dr. Alexander Ciota at the New York State Arbovirology Laboratory at the Wadsworth Center. Rachel also holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the State University of New York College at Potsdam. Currently, she is working with Dr. Erin Mordecai at Stanford, continuing her research on vector-borne diseases.