Profile

• Organization

  University of Utah

  
  
• Employment Status

  Graduate Student

  
  
• Website

  http://medicine.utah.edu/faculty/mddetail.php?facultyID=u0983814

  
  
• Telephone

  970-534-5755

  
  
• ORCID

  0000-0002-3982-3835

  
  
• Reason

  Using in an existing course

  
  
• Interests

  1. Microbiology Education
  2. mycology

  
  
• Address

  address1:	936 East Place
  city:	Salt Lake City
  postal:	84102
  region:	Utah
  country:	US

  
  
• Biography

   I received a BS in microbiology and immunology from Colorado State in 2013. While there, I spent four years in William Black IV’s lab studying the gene flow of insecticide resistance alleles within populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, and its consequences for host seeking-behavior. Upon graduating, I spent several months field testing tick traps for a military contractor in the foothills of Colorado, but was growing tired of being a blood-meal for work. In the fall of 2014 I entered the molecular biology graduate program at the University of Utah with the intent of exploring host-pathogen interactions more at the molecular level, and the long-term goal of becoming an educator. There, I joined Jessica Brown’s lab and began projects focused on elucidating mechanisms behind the extrapulmonary dissemination of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. We are particularly interested in the regulation of immunosuppressive fungal exopolysaccharides and their role in pathogenesis.

  
  
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