She has done her graduate work at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory with Dr Winship Herr and postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University with Dr David Allis. In the fall of 2006, Dr Wysocka established her independent research group at Stanford University, where her research is focused on understanding chromatin-mediated mechanisms that regulate self-renewal and differentiation with particular interest in the molecular basis of developmental plasticity. Dr Wysocka received numerous awards for her research, including the Searle Scholar Award, Baxter Award, Terman Fellow Award, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine New Faculty Award, W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar Award and 2010 International Society for Stem Cell Research Outstanding Young Investigator Award."