Education & Professional Background

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

B.S., Molecular Biotechnology, 2019           

B.S., Clinical Laboratory Science, 2019

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Master of Microbial Biotechnology (MMB), 2025 

Teaching Assistant - General Microbiology Laboratory, 2023 - Present

Instructing undergraduate student through an introduction to microbiology course.

I&D Technician II - Next-Generation Sequencing, 2021 - 2023

Developing, validating, and releasing global next-generation sequencing protocols for various pathogens that are problematic in the poultry and swine production industry utilizing molecular biology techniques such as: reverse transcription, PCR, qPCR, whole genome amplification, and sequencing using Oxford Nanopore technology.

Medical Microbiologist - Department of Clinical Microbiology, 2019 - 2021

 Utilizing automatized and manual techniques to identify and diagnose bacterial infections in clinical patients as well as determining bacterial susceptibilities to antibiotic drugs.