Thesis work in Robert Landick's lab through the Cellular and Molecular Biology graduate program• Metabolic engineering of Zymomonas mobilis for terpenoid biofuel production• Computational genomics for identification of alternative terpene precursor biosynthesis pathways

Molecular biologist• building E. coli strains• generating and analyzing NGS data• high throughput screening

• Developed time lapse microscopy platform to quantify heterogeneous growth of MTB populations in varied conditions• Performed phage mediated transposon mutagenesis on MTB to identify essential genes in clinically relevant drug conditions• Worked in BSL-3 environment culturing and experimenting on MTB for 2.5 years• Designed and executed experiments to optimize reagents for our projects • Presented microscopy research using poster at Undergraduate Research Symposium