Emory is a rising fourth year Ph.D. student in Professor Wayne Wahls’ laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UAMS. She recently made her first presentation to a major scientific conference, the 12th International Fission Yeast Meeting, which was held in Boston, Massachusetts from August 3rd to 8th, 2025. This symposium is convened every two years and rotates between venues in Europe, Asia, and America. It is the flagship conference for over 1,000 experts from approximately 200 laboratories world-wide who use the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a model organism. Emory presented her first-author study about histone methyltransferases and was co-author, with Reine Protacio, Mari Davidson and Wayne Wahls, on two additional presentations about regulatory DNA sites and chromatin remodeling.