Welcome to my site where I share my work. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where I study the biochemical underpinnings of phase-separation in the cell. I received my doctorate in Biological Chemistry at UCLA under the mentorship of David Eisenberg, D. Phil. My postdoctoral studies build on my graduate work in amyloid structure and phase-separation.
Along the way, I have become captivated by the ways in which scientists present data. This data is the clay scientists use to spin their stories, and I hope to share the beauty I see in these stories through my work.
Me standing next to a print of an image I created for St. Jude to accompany the release of Maxwell et al., 2021 and Gwon et al., 2021. A brief summary regarding the research related to this piece can be found on the St. Jude website.
Stress granule disassembly as seen from the vantage point of a viewer standing on the endoplasmic reticulum. VCP (green) is pulling G3BP1 (orange) out of a stress granule (blue) in a process mediated by ubiquitination.