Biography

I was born and raised in Los Angeles county, CA. I attended Bishop Amat High School. I earn my BS in Biology from UC Irvine, my MS in Microbiology at Washington State University working on tetracycline resistance, and my PhD in Developmental and Cell Biology from UC Irvine working on an the Dlg protein in Drosophila. I did a post doc at the National Institute on Aging working on gene expression profiles of ovarian tumors. I have worked in the Utah State Crime Lab as a Criminalist in the Biology Section and on the Crime Scene team, at Prolexys Pharmaceuticals in the high throughput cloning section, at the Huntsman Cancer Institute as a junior faculty member of the Ob/Gyn Department, and in the Modified and Activated Carbon Center of Excellence at the University of Utah as a faculty member of the Metallurgical Engineering Department. I have taught Biotech classes at Salt Lake Community College as an adjunct professor and worked at a local biotech company, Idaho Technologies before coming to UVU as an assistant professor in the Biotechnology Program.

Teaching