Education
2009-2016
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2004-2008
B.S. in Biological Sciences
B.A. in History
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Research experience
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