Freya Wencker

Freya Wencker joins the FAS as Lecturer in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB). She will teach advanced laboratory courses in molecular biology and microbiology as well as provide oversight of the MCDB-managed Flow Cytometry core facility (FACS) at Yale’s West Campus. Her research interests revolve around the roles of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) in bacterial metabolism, virulence, and stress adaptation on the molecular and organismic level.

She earned her BSc in Biological Sciences at University of Rostock, Germany, in 2011 and her MSc in Medical Biology at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in 2014. She completed her doctorate in Molecular Infection Biology at Julius-Maximilians University in Würzburg, Germany, in 2020. She joined Yale as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Ronald Breaker in MCDB in 2021. Since graduate school, Freya has been actively engaged in the training and teaching of students because she believes that top-level research relies on top-trained scientists. Her goal as a lecturer is to "infect" students with her enthusiasm and fascination for science and to help them become curious, independent thinkers.