Experience

Ribometrix Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director, RNA Biology

  • Feb 2022 - Present

• Senior Scientist I

  • Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

• Scientist II

  • Mar 2018 - Jan 2020

  Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area



Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Scholar

  • May 2016 - Feb 2018

  Cambridge, MA As a Postdoctoral Scholar at NIBR, my work focused on technology and assay development. My contributions to various projects included the development of novel cell-based screening assays, adaptation of complex reporter systems, and purification of RNA-protein complexes for structural studies.



University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2010 - May 2016

  Chapel Hill, NC Structure-function studies of lncRNA, both in vitro and in living cells, using structure-selective chemical probes combined with massively parallel sequencing. - Used chemical probing data to develop and interpret structural models of lncRNA targets - Combined experimental and bioinformatic analysis to reveal new facets of lncRNA biology - Created a simple, rapid approach for accessing chemical probing data from low-abundance RNAs - Developed and validated a computational… Show more Structure-function studies of lncRNA, both in vitro and in living cells, using structure-selective chemical probes combined with massively parallel sequencing. - Used chemical probing data to develop and interpret structural models of lncRNA targets - Combined experimental and bioinformatic analysis to reveal new facets of lncRNA biology - Created a simple, rapid approach for accessing chemical probing data from low-abundance RNAs - Developed and validated a computational approach for identifying RNA-protein interaction sites - Successfully implemented new procedure to reduce sample prep time from 1 week to 1 day - Demonstrated that chemical probes can be applied to unnatural nucleic acids (XNAs) Show less



Miami University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2007 - May 2010

  High-Field Magnetic Resonance Laboratory Crystallographic structure determination of a putative regulator of cyanobacterial heterocyst differentiation; NMR structure determination of an acyl carrier protein with details regarding post-translational modifications.