Professional Experience
2021 - Current Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2019 - Current Assistant Director, Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2019 - Medical Writer & Research Analyst, Precision Medicine and Genetics Team, Hayes Inc., a subsidiary of TractManager
Education & Training
2016- 2020 - NIH-IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow (MERIT program), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
2011-2016 - Ph.D. in Integrative Biology & Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2007-2010 - M.S. Microbiology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
2002-2007 - B.S. & B.A. Marine & Molecular Biology, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Awards & Honors
2020 - Development of zebrafish patient-guided models of MAPK8IP3 genetic disorders
Wolverine Foundation Award with Drs. Might and Yoder
2018 - Teaching Innovation Award (co-investigator)
UAB Center for Teaching and Learning- Quality-Enhancement Plan (CTL-QEP)
2018 - Best talk overall (winner), Southeast Regional Society for Developmental Biology (SRSDB)
annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia
2017 - Most outstanding postdoc (nominee), University of Alabama at Birmingham
2016 - NIH Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA)
University of Alabama at Birmingham MERIT Program
2015 - Oregon State Lottery Scholarship
2015 - Oregon State University Libraries and Press Open Access Fund
2013-2015 - Zoology Research Fellowship (ZoRF), Oregon State University
2014 - College of Science Student Travel Award (COSSTA), Oregon State University
2014 - Best Poster Presentation by a student from College of Earth and Oceanographic Sciences
URSA engage program, Oregon State University (student mentee)
2014 - Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research award (GIAR), Scientific Research Society
2013 - Graduate Student International Travel Award, Oregon State University
2013 - College of Science Student Travel Award (COSSTA), Oregon State University
2012 - East Asian and Pacific Summer Institute Fellow, National Science Foundation
National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
2007 - Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Fellow, National Science Foundation
Bermuda Institute of Oceanographic Sciences
2021 - Current Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2019 - Current Assistant Director, Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2019 - Medical Writer & Research Analyst, Precision Medicine and Genetics Team, Hayes Inc., a subsidiary of TractManager
Education & Training
2016- 2020 - NIH-IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellow (MERIT program), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
2011-2016 - Ph.D. in Integrative Biology & Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2007-2010 - M.S. Microbiology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
2002-2007 - B.S. & B.A. Marine & Molecular Biology, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Awards & Honors
2020 - Development of zebrafish patient-guided models of MAPK8IP3 genetic disorders
Wolverine Foundation Award with Drs. Might and Yoder
2018 - Teaching Innovation Award (co-investigator)
UAB Center for Teaching and Learning- Quality-Enhancement Plan (CTL-QEP)
2018 - Best talk overall (winner), Southeast Regional Society for Developmental Biology (SRSDB)
annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia
2017 - Most outstanding postdoc (nominee), University of Alabama at Birmingham
2016 - NIH Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA)
University of Alabama at Birmingham MERIT Program
2015 - Oregon State Lottery Scholarship
2015 - Oregon State University Libraries and Press Open Access Fund
2013-2015 - Zoology Research Fellowship (ZoRF), Oregon State University
2014 - College of Science Student Travel Award (COSSTA), Oregon State University
2014 - Best Poster Presentation by a student from College of Earth and Oceanographic Sciences
URSA engage program, Oregon State University (student mentee)
2014 - Sigma Xi Grants in Aid of Research award (GIAR), Scientific Research Society
2013 - Graduate Student International Travel Award, Oregon State University
2013 - College of Science Student Travel Award (COSSTA), Oregon State University
2012 - East Asian and Pacific Summer Institute Fellow, National Science Foundation
National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
2007 - Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Fellow, National Science Foundation
Bermuda Institute of Oceanographic Sciences
