I am from Bluffton, OH and earned a BS in Biochemistry from Indiana Wesleyan University, where I worked with Dr. Mark Asnicar studying regulation of nutrient metabolism. During a summer REU, I also worked with Dr. Scott Briggs at Purdue University to investigate mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance. I am currently working under Dr. Matthew Gorr at OSU to characterize the differences between left and right ventricular fibroblast activation to better understand pathological cardiac remodeling at the molecular level.