About me

I am biochemist turned computational biologist currently completing my training as a predoctoral student in Oregon Health & Science University’s Health and Clinical Informatics graduate program. Before beginning this program, I had worked in molecular biology labs both on the coast of Maine and in Boston studying diseases like acute myeloid leukemia and clonal hematopoiesis in murine models as well as studying the functional genomics of asthma and COPD in human cell lines. In addition to working at the bench, I was also given opportunities to practice bioinformatics to generate testable hypotheses from bulk and single cell RNA sequencing experiments. Presently, my work focuses on the urinary microbiome, or the urobiome, using computational tools to help explain how the metabolic activity of these resident microbes can influence disease processes that affect women’s health as in the case of overactive bladder syndrome.