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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (2010 - present)

Ph.D candidate in Computational and Systems Biology

Thesis advisors: Jeff Gore and Martin Polz

"Marine microbial communities at the microscale"

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (2006 - 2010)

Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Biology

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2012 - present)

Member of Tau Beta Pi (2007)

Robert C. Byrd Scholarship (U.S. Department of Education) (2006)

National Merit Scholarship (2006)

Graduate student, MIT, Cambridge, MA (2010 - present)

Computational and Systems Biology (CSB) Graduate Program

Advisors: Jeff Gore and Martin Polz

Theoretical ecology and evolutionary dynamics in laboratory microbial ecosystems; marine microbial ecology

Graduate student, MIT, Cambridge, MA (2011 - 2012)

Computational and Systems Biology (CSB) Graduate Program

Advisor: Susan Lindquist

Protein folding and misfolding in microbial evolution

Undergraduate student, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (2008 - 2010)

Department of Bioengineering

Advisors: Adam Arkin and David Schaffer

HIV population dynamics and evolution in the presence of gene therapy

Education

Teaching assistant, MIT, Cambridge, MA (Spring 2012)

20.111 Physical Chemistry of Biomolecular Systems

UC Berkeley Student Learning Center, Berkeley, CA (2007 - 2010)

Drop-in tutor / Study group leader for General Chemistry (Chem 1A)

Taught a supplementary study group in general chemistry for first-year undergraduates majoring in biology, physics, and engineering
Regularly led course-wide exam review sessions and practice midterms
Led seminar to review course material and teaching strategies for newly hired general chemistry tutors

Purdue University Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, West Lafayette, IN (Summer 2007, Summer 2008)

Weldon School of Bioengineering

Advisor: Alyssa Panitch

In vitro characterization of a peptide-based therapeutic for abdominal adhesions