EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Barbara: Biochemistry - Molecular Biology - M.A. (2011)
University of California, Santa Barbara: Biochemistry - Molecular Biology - B.S. (2008)
AWARDS
American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (2017)
MCDB Special Departmental Honors/ Distinction in Major - for outstanding undergraduate research project: Effects of Methyltransferases on A-Site Cleavage, ssrA Tagging, and tmRNA Mediated Ribosome Rescue in E coli
Deans Honors multiple quarters as undergraduate (Winter, Spring, Fall 2007)
UC Regents Scholar: Merit scholarship (2004-2008)
Recipient of the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute paid summer internship award (2010)
