Madison Dallas

Madison is a 4th year undergraduate student at Vanderbilt University. Originally from Tampa, FL, Madison is currently majoring in Biological Sciences with minors in Anthropology and Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS). She is an executive board member of Vanderbilt’s Next Steps Ambassadors program, which works to provide individualized support for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Under the mentorship of Dr. Kaylon Bruner-Tran and Dr. Shilpa Mokshagundam, she has studied the association between developmental toxicant exposure and increased transgenerational risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Her future research interests include the germline epigenetic effects of developmental toxicant exposure and the microbiome conditions associated with NEC.