Professional Training and Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder
• PhD, Microbiology, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
• MPH, Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, University of California Berkeley
• BS, Microbiology, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
• AA, Social Sciences, Sacramento City College

Research Interests

• Mechanisms of cellular entry by emerging and pre-emergent animal viruses
• Genetic determinants of successful cross-species virus transmission events
• Coevolution of virus-host interactions
• Mechanisms of restriction factor activity and virus evasion strategies
• Development of iPSC-derived models of inaccessible human and nonhuman primate cell types for the study of virus biology
• Development of reverse genetic systems to create novel  infectious virus clones 
• Model virus systems: Simian arteriviruses, HIV/SIV, influenza A virus, and flaviviruses