Graduate work: I joined the Abramovitch lab in early 2012 as a graduate student in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University. In the lab we study how Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is able to sense and orchestrate adaptive responses to environmental cues.
Using a fluorescent reporter strain, we screened >300,000 compounds to find inhibitors of pH-dependent adaptation. Using chemical genetics, NGS techniques, and a variety of other biological assays, we identified some promising candidates.
Postdoctoral work: I joined the Triche lab and Shen lab in 2019 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, MI. The common theme between both labs is trying to develop new methods and techniques to address the dynamics of epigenetics and metabolism in childhood and female reproductive cancers.
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