Dr. Soni Lacefield is Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She is a leading investigator in meiotic cell-cycle regulation and chromosome segregation. Her research focuses on understanding how errors in germ cell division impact fertility, developmental integrity, and tumor initiation.

Dr. Lacefield completed her PhD from MIT and postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. She is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is committed to advancing scientific rigor, mentoring the next generation of scientists, and translating fundamental discoveries in cell biology into insights relevant to women’s reproductive health and cancer.