How did your career path lead you to Duke?

I am originally from Columbus Ohio and got my B.S. in Mathematical Biology from Ohio State University. I became interested in research when I participated in SEA-PHAGES, a program that engages undergraduates in a semester-long research project where students isolate and characterize bacteriophage from an environmental sample. I loved working with phages, so I joined Dr. Matthew Sullivan’s Lab where I studied infection dynamics in multiple phage-host communities. A highlight from my time in the Sullivan Lab was participating in a fieldwork expedition where myself and two other lab members traveled to Bermuda and collected seawater samples aboard the Atlantic Explorer. I also continued involvement with the SEA-PHAGES program by serving as a TA for the lab. After receiving my bachelors, I spent two years working as a research assistant in Dr. Matthew Anderson’s lab at OSU. I studied the transcriptional and phenotypic consequences of aneuploidy in Candida albicans which began my interests in fungi and computational biology!