I started my research career during my undergraduate studies at Ohio Wesleyan University under Chris Wolverton studying root tip gravitropism in Arabidopsis. As a post-bachelor I worked under Rama Mallampalli, at The Ohio State University, investigating E3 ubiquitin ligase targets in acute lung injury models. I am now pursuing my PhD within the OSU MCDB program working under Eugene Oltz, investigating DNA damage on chromatin conformation and gene expression.