I received by B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 2007 and my Ph.D. in 2013 at the University of California-Riverside in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry studying the mechanism of metalloenzymes using steady state and rapid reaction kinetics, and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy with Prof. Russ Hille. Following my Ph.D., I studied advanced EPR techniques at the University of California-Davis with Prof. R. David Britt on a variety of metalloenzyems, using the advanced spectroscopic techniques to gain mechanistic insight into the enzymes. In 2019 I became an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where my lab continues to use rapid reaction kinetics and magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study metalloenzymes, specifically enzymes with molybdenum or iron at their active site.
Education:
B.S. (2007) in Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D. (2013) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Riverside (Advisor: Russ Hille)
Post-Doctoral research associate (2014-2019), University of California-Davis (Advisor: R. David Britt)