About Me

I am a biochemist and structural biologist nearing completion of my PhD from Emory University’s Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology graduate program. My graduate research focuses on the maintenance and disruption of bacterial protein synthesis fidelity, with a particular interest in addressing antibiotic resistance in human pathogens. I am interested in the application of biochemistry and structural biology techniques to scientific problems of human health and am especially excited by technological developments which promise to improve the speed and ease of biomolecular structure determination.

Prior to my graduate education, I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and philosophy from the University of Kentucky, graduating magna cum laude in 2016. Following my graduation, I worked as a research technician in Dr. Emily Curran’s lab at the University of Chicago, where I developed expertise in rodent models and immune system activating compounds, which I applied to studying blood cancers like acute myeloid leukemia.

In addition to my work as a biochemist, I have interest in free and open source (FOSS) software/Linux, software self-hosting/home servers, and computer hardware tinkering, with a strong interest in building machines to solve problems I identify. During my PhD, I designed, built, and managed two cryo-electron microscopy image processing workstations for my lab, which enabled us to greatly accelerate our rate of biomolecular structure determination compared to our university’s shared computing cluster.