Laura White is an RNA Bioinformatics Fellow at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she leads nanopore method development and analysis efforts within the CU RNA Bioscience Initiative. She completed her PhD in Jay Hesselberth’s laboratory in 2021, wherein she leveraged nanopore sequencing to detect repaired RNA molecules. Her current research is focused on tRNA biology as well as novel methods development for direct RNA sequencing and RNA modification detection.