September 2023

Tamara Meragelman is the Sr. Director of Research at Soung Agriculture. She holds a PhD in Natural Products Chemistry and has accrued over 20 years of research experience in the area of discovery and development of products using natural products. In the last 12 years, Tamara found her passion in agriculture and food production, particularly developing new solutions that balance efficacy with environmental and financial sustainability. Tamara had contributed to the discovery of biologicals and small molecules for crop protection and crop enhancement, leading multidisciplinary teams in the...Read more

I am currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a postdoctoral fellow in Erin Chen’s lab at the Broad Institute/MIT Department of Biology. I obtained my bachelor’s degree at Caltech in bioengineering and was subsequently a Fulbright scholar at the Technical University of Denmark in the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine.  I completed my PhD in Feng Zhang’s lab at the Broad Institute/MIT Department of Biological Engineering, where I studied the origins of CRISPR-Cas systems from ancestral mobile elements and biochemical...Read more