Research Interests
Host-viral interactions, RNA-binding proteins, transcriptomics
I grew up in Ohio and received a BS in Biotechnology from Kent State University (2013). I then moved to Philadelphia, PA where I completed a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania in Kristen Lynch’s lab (2019). My doctoral work focused on alternative splicing regulation of both host and viral transcripts during influenza A infection. During my time in Kristen’s lab I became interested in the mechanisms that cause mis-regulation of RNA binding proteins during infection to give rise to changes in the host and viral transcriptomes. In Stacy’s lab I am exploring this interest by studying how the proteins that regulate post-transcriptional modification of RNA are functionally altered during infection with viruses from the Flaviviridae family.