Education

2003-2007         Postdoctoral Fellowship, Virology; 

                        Harvard Medical School,

                        Boston, Massachusetts; 

                        Winner of the United States National 

                        Research Service Award (F32 and
                        T32) Fellowships. 

Project Title: Genetic Analysis of Reovirus mu2 protein and Study of Reovirus-Host Cell Interaction.  Exploring the functions of the virus protein m2 in infected mammalian cells and how virus-host cell interaction affects viral replication and virus-induced cytopathology.  Exploring mechanisms of microbial replication and pathogenesis for reovirus using a combination of genomic, biochemical, cell biological and molecular approaches.

1996-2003                 Ph.D. Molecular Genetics; Washington 

                       University School of Medicine, 

                       St. Louis, Missouri

                        Thesis:  Regulation of the GATA-Type
                        Transcription Factor Gln3p by

                        The Target of Rapamycin Protein.  
                        Discovered novel proteins that

                        interacted with and regulated the Gln3p
                        mammalian transcription factor

                        and determined the functional
                        relevance of this relationship for host
                        cell physiology and relevance for
                        human diseases.

  

1992-1996             B.S. Biology; University of Dallas,
Irving, Texas; graduated Cum Laude