I am a computational biochemist interested in metabolism and the enzymes that control this vital biological process. I have extensive background in RNA sequencing, ribosome profiling, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, and metabolic tracing data processing, analysis and visualization. I am passionate about building interactive, interpretable software for a more holistic understanding of complex biological networks to elucidate regulation and mechanism.

I am an active open-source developer and contributor. I develop and maintain the following packages: Metaboverse, which aids researchers in contextualizing their metabolic data and automates the process of identifying regulatory events within their data; Electrum, which assists in visualizing and analyzing high-throughput protein metabolite interactomics data and identifying small molecule regulators of proteins; and XPRESSyourself, which adds to and automates the quantification and analysis of ribosome profiling and other gene expression data.

Most recently, I am a Senior Scientist at Pragma Bio, a small start-up leveraging clinical data and the gut microbioime to identify the small molecules responsible for health outcomes and turning those molecules into therapeutics. Previously, I was a Scientist at Altos Labs. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Utah, where I worked in the lab of Jared Rutter (Department of Biochemistry), and was co-advised by Bei Wang (School of Computing). During my Ph.D., I was funded first by an NIDDK T32, and then by an NCI F99 predoctoral fellowship (1F99CA253744). I got my start in scientific research during my undergraduate degree, where I worked in the lab of Julianne Grose isolating and then phenotypically and genomically characterizing novel Erwinia bacteriophages from apple orchards and Brevibacillus bacteriophages from honey bee.