Anna started her scientific career as a research assistant at the Yale Center for Genome Analysis and then in the Topher Carroll lab in the Cell Biology department at Yale University. Anna completed her PhD at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT, USA) in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. There she studied the role of histone variant H2A.Z and the linker histone H1 in chromosome condensation and transcription in budding yeast. Following her PhD, Anna joined the Nieduszynski Group at the Earlham Institute and studies replication dynamics in budding yeast using single molecule sequencing methods.