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Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Graduate student in the Alegre lab studying immune responses to transplanted organs.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Curator for the UChicago Committee on Immunology Twitter page. Responsible for advertising scientific and administrative advances within the committee.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for collecting student opinions via meetings and surveys, and advocating for student voices with program faculty. Helped facilitate peer-mentoring and DEI efforts within the immunology department. Organized inter-student networking.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Expanding understanding of the ongoing cancer research at the University of Chicago, learning how to decipher main take-aways and promote ongoing research using social media, and learning how to write general scientific reports for a broad, nonscientific audience. Other tasks include Practicing communicating with/interviewing faculty on their ongoing research, and compiling background research, interview questions, and report on responses

Bar Harbor, Maine

Residential Assistant duties include providing guidance and mentorship to students, leading after work activities, and continuing the laboratory research begun summer 2016 as a member of the Serreze lab.

School Of Engineering, Storrs, Ct

Office assistant in the School of Engineering, Undergraduate Programs Office at the University of Connecticut. Manages student advisor appointments, helps organize open houses, commencement, and various awards ceremonies.

Storrs, Ct

Research into protein kinase motif specificity using an E.coli peptide library. Mutagenesis of protein kinase DYRK1A catalytic domain to determine any alterations in substrate specificity and catalytic activity. The long-term goal of this project is to better understand how kinases function in order to characterize and treat human kinasopathies.

Storrs, Ct

Research regarding animal cognition, specifically interest in parrot intelligence.Wrote and administered a parrot intelligence survey focused on neophobic learning.

Bar Harbor, Maine

Summer Student Program 2016 participant. Worked in the Serreze lab studying the effect of the gene Nfkbid on the thymic negative selection process as it related to type one diabetes in NOD mice. Utilized MHC class I tetramers to enumerate the number of autoreactive CD8 T cells in the periphery of these mice.Learned and utilized mouse skills and flow cytometry.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Immunology

PhD candidate researcher in the University of Chicago Biomedical Sciences program. Pursuing a Ph.D in Immunology focusing.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biological Sciences; Minor In Physiology And Neurobiology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Honors Scholar, Sigma Alpha Lambda, Undergraduate Research, UConn Swim Club, UConn American.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, German Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: 2015 Lederer Prize recipient Second Major at the University of Connecticut