I graduated from the University on North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018 with a B.S. in Chemistry. During my undergraduate career, I designed CRISPR constructs to generate mutations in various suspected oncogenes and proto-oncogenes to test if their mutation was sufficient to generate tumors in Dr. Terry Magnuson’s lab at UNC. In the summers, I worked in the TPSR at VUMC where I assisted in the animal sentinel program and ran the clinical chemistry analyzer. Currently, I am working to optimize single cell RNA sequencing and to adapt it to work with fixed cells. In my free time I enjoy gaming, biking, and reading.