Welcome!
I'm currently a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. I've recently accepted a faculty position, so I'm looking forward to joining the Biology Department at Eastern Michigan University in the 2009-2010 acadmic year. I enjoy both research and teaching, and my postdoctoral training has been through the UNC-Chapel Hill Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education (SPIRE) program. The goal of the SPIRE program is to broadly train postdoctoral fellows in both research and teaching and to increase diversity in science professions.

Training and Education:

SPIRE Postdoctoral Training, 2005-2009
Research: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University, Durham, NC
Advisor: Dr. Thomas D. Petes
Teaching: Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Shaw University, Raleigh, NC

Ph.D. in Human Genetics, 2005
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dissertation: "Common Fragile Sites: Mechanisms of Instability"
Advisor: Dr. Tom Glover

M.S. in Human Genetics, 2002
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Advisor: Dr. Tom Glover

B.S. in Biology with High Distinction, 1999
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Research Advisors: Dr. Larry Harshman, Dr. John Janovy, Jr.