Research Interests
Mitochondrial biology, phospholipid and energy metabolism.
Undergraduate Institution
BS, Millersville University
BS, West Chester University
Awards and Honors
2021 Maria Del Carmen Vitery Graduate Student Award
2014 Undergraduate Summer research Fellowship
2014 Anton K. Fontes Award in Health Professions
2012-2015 Academic Distinction
2015 Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers Society Student Spotlight
Research Interests
My largest interest would have to be extreme organism physiology. I’m fascinated with how living creatures manage to evolve when faced with the many, seemingly unendurable, stressors of life.
Publications
Awards and Honors
International Student Exchange Program (2014/2015)
Undergraduate Institution
BS, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Awards and Honors
2023-2024 VTSI Fellowship
2023-2024 APS Porter Fellowship
2022 – Maria Del Carmen Vitery Graduate Student Award
2020 – 2023 NSF Predoctoral Fellowship
2016- 2019 Cancer Research Training Award with the National Cancer Institute
March 2017 Ruth and William Silen, M.D Award for Poster Presentation, New England Science Symposium, Harvard Medical School
FY 2015-2016 Outstanding Sports Medicine Student at Pepperdine University
Summer 2015 Shock Research Fellowship, Christiana Hospital, DE
Summer 2015 CITI certification in animal research and clinical research
Summer 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship Award, Pepperdine University
Research Interests
I am interested in determining how the gut microbiota regulates gene expression in the kidney.