[9][10][11][12] As a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow, she completed her first postdoctoral fellowship in teaching at Davidson College under the guidance of Laurie Heyer and Malcolm Campbell.
[18] Haynes went on to complete a second postdoctoral fellowship in Pamela Silver's lab at Harvard Medical School where she leveraged her experience with chromatin dynamics and synthetic biology to create artificial transcription factors which activated genes based on histone methylation.
[6][19][12] After her postdoctoral fellowships in 2011, Haynes started her lab in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU).
[23] She hopes to increase the use of technology in therapeutics, working on tissue regeneration and customizable protein-based drugs.
[24] In 2015 she was awarded a K01 grant to study the use of modular peptide motifs to build synthetic chromatin proteins that activate dormant therapeutic genes.
[27][5] During her time here, she founded the AfroBiotech conference and the Cold Spring Harbor Summer Course on Synthetic Biology.