Education and Positions

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, TouroCOM Montana

2023 - NIH K99/R00 Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC), Postdoctoral Fellow –Montana State University; Focus: Applying Machine Learning to Assess Lipidomic and Antioxidant Alterations in a Longitudinal Cohort of Aging Women (K99AG081495, PI: Borgogna)

2020 - 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow – Montana State University; Focus: Relation between psychosocial stress and molecular bacterial vaginosis in racial/ethnic minorities

2014 - 2019 Ph.D. – Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; Thesis title: Examining the Potential Role of Biogenic Amines in Vaginal Microbial Ecology and Gynecological Health

2011-2014 B.S. – Biology, Point Loma Nazarene; Minor: Applied Statistics