As a National Science Foundation (NSF) postdoctoral scholar at the Scripps Research Institute (TRSI), I worked with Drs. Gabriel Lander and Andrew Ward to uncover the molecular mechanisms of some of nature's most mysterious machines - from proteases that destroy toxins within mitochondria to viruses capable of causing global pandemics.

• PhD Candidate in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology• Lab of Dr. Eva Nogales, PhD, Chair of the Division of Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator• Graduate Student Instructor for Biophysical Chemistry (MCB100A, Spring 2017) and General Biology (BIO1A,… Show more • PhD Candidate in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology• Lab of Dr. Eva Nogales, PhD, Chair of the Division of Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator• Graduate Student Instructor for Biophysical Chemistry (MCB100A, Spring 2017) and General Biology (BIO1A, Fall 2016) • Co-Founder and Co-Director of InclusiveMCB+ (iMCB+): An inter-departmental program focused on improving the social climate and creating a safer environment for historically oppressed groups in collaboration with Michael Botchan, Susan Marqusse, David Weisblat and Michelle Reid. Show less

• Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow in the Lab of Dr. Julie Donaldson, PhD, Chief of the Membrane Biology Section in the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Physiology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Lab of Dr. Morteza Gharib, PhD, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Bioinspired Engineering and Vice Provost of CalTech • Project: Tissue Expansion in vitro: A Focus on Design and Instrumentation • Presented at the 5th Annual Winter Enrichment Program (WEP) Undergraduate Poster Competition, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Jan 20th 2014

• Lab of Dr. Steven Zeichner, MD, PhD, Professor at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences and funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)• Project: Development of a massively parallel high throughput in vivo mucosal immune screening device to identify immunogenic antigens capable of inducing a broadly neutralizing anti-HIV immune response• Hosted by Grinnell-in-Washington, D.C. off-campus study program

• Lab of Dr. Raul Andino, PhD, a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at UCSF• Project: Influence of interferon on the exonic structure of the human RNA editing enzyme ADAR1 in mouse embryonic fibroblasts• Presented at the Immunology Session of the Amgen Scholars Symposium at the University of California, Los Angeles (July 21-23, 2012)