Hannah Richter

Dr. Richter received her BS in Biochemistry and Philosophy from Beloit College, a small private liberal arts college in Beloit, WI, in 2015. She then joined the Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed her PhD dissertation on the transcriptional regulation of adipose metabolism. In 2022, she moved to San Francisco to pursue postdoctoral research at the Gladstone Institutes, a non-profit research center affiliated with UCSF. There, she continues to explore her fascination with transcriptional regulation using novel sequencing methods to study genome organization across various cell types and in vitro systems. Dr. Richter joined the University of San Francisco as an adjunct professor in Chemistry in the fall of 2024, after serving as a guest lecturer in the spring.

• Biochemistry
• Molecular biology
• Bioinformatics

• Transcriptional regulation
• Long-read sequencing
• Cell differentiation

• University of Pennsylvania, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 2022
• Beloit College, BS in Biochemistry and Philosophy, 2015

• Postdoctoral Fellow, The J. David Gladstone Institutes
• Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania

• Inoue, S., Emmett, M.J., Lim H.-W., Midha, M., Richter, H.J., Celwyn, I.J., Mehmood, R., Chondronikola, M., Klein, S., Hauck, A.K., Lazar, M.A. (2024) Short-term cold exposure induces persistent epigenomic memory in brown fat. Cell Metabolism 36, 1–15.
• Richter, H.J., Hauck, A.K., Batmanov, K., Inoue, S.-I., So, B.N., Kim, M., Emmett, M.J., Cohen, R.N., and Lazar, M.A. (2022). Balanced control of thermogenesis by nuclear receptor corepressors in brown adipose tissue. PNAS 119, e2205276119. 
• Emmett, M.J., Lim, H.-W., Jager, J., Richter, H.J., Adlanmerini, M., Peed, L.C., Briggs, E.R., Steger, D.J., Ma, T., Sims, C.A., et al. (2017). Histone Deacetylase 3 Prepares Brown Adipose Tissue For Acute Thermogenic Challenge. Nature 546, 544–548.