CV

2009-2016

PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2004-2008

B.S. in Biological Sciences

B.A. in History

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

2017-present

Post-doctoral associate, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Adviser: John Lis

Investigating how the enhancer landscape changes during acute stresses

2016-2017

Post-doctoral associate, University of California at Los Angeles, CA

Adviser: Tracy Johnson

Project: Identifying how certain factors affect the kinetics and localization of splicing in the innate immune system

2010-2015

Graduate student, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Adviser: Andrew Grimson

Projects: Developing a high-throughput screen to discover novel post- transcriptional regulatory sequences; identifying how microRNA expression affects the neonatal immune system

2007-2009

 Undergraduate researcher, NIEHS, Durham, NC

Adviser: Serena Dudek

Project: Discovered that many genes needed for long-term memory formation use polymerase stalling in transcriptional regulation

2006

Undergraduate researcher, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Adviser: Trudy Mackay

Project: Identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the IM10 gene that correlated with ethanol sensitivity in D. melanogaster