Margaret Schroeder, while a PhD student in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department at MIT, was a member of both the Feng and Boyden labs. Prior to MIT, she received a BSE in Bioengineering, a BS in Economics, and a Masters in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Her thesis research focused on characterizing the transcriptomic heterogeneity of glial cells across brain regions and developmental time points in the mammalian brain. In the Boyden lab, she worked on developing image analysis pipelines for expansion revealing (ExR) and related techniques. After graduating, she went on to a postdoctoral position at Rockefeller.