2003 - 2007 B.A. in Chemistry, Whitman College
2007 - 2012 PhD in Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSC (with Roger Linington)
2012 - 2015 NIH K12 IRACDA Postdoc Fellow - UCSD (with Pieter Dorrestein)
2015 - 2020 Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences at UIC
2020 Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences at UIC
2021 - Present Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSC
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She started her independent lab in the Fall of 2015 at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Pharmaceutical sciences. The lab relocated to the University of California, Santa Cruz Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in January 2021. Her team specializes in using and adapting imaging mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry for small molecule analyses in complex systems. She was a K12 BIRCWH Scholar (2016-2017) which supported the translation of the techniques to women's health.
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Honors and Awards
Allen Distinguished Investigator, Paul G Allen Frontiers Group, 2022
Top 40 under 40, The Analytical Scientist Power List, 2022
ASP Matt Suffness Young Investigator Award, 2022
ACS Infectious Diseases/ACS Division of Biological Chemistry Young Investigator Award, 2022
2021 Rising Stars in Proteomics and Metabolomics, Journal of Proteome Research, 2021
2019 Rising Star Award in Basic Life Sciences, UIC, 2020
40 under 40 Chicago Scientists, Halo Innovations, 2019