Maxine received her degree in Molecular Environmental Biology from UC Berkeley where she studied the effects of cis-regulatory elements on evolved tooth gain. Prior to joining the Voorhees lab Maxine was studying mitochondrial protein biogenesis and stress responses in the Weissman Lab at the Whitehead Institute. She is also the Scientific Operations Manager for the Laboratory for Genomics Research, a functional genomics collaboration between UCSF, UCB, and GSK.