Research Interests: I am a PhD student in Dr. Brian Lazzaro's lab studying host-microbe interactions in Drosophila melanogaster. Currently, I am interested in the molecular mechanisms that are involved in mounting an immune response against bacterial pathogens as well as the crosstalk between different signalling pathways in the fly. While I am a molecular biologist by training, I am excited to be studying entomology and use cellular and tissue-specific findings as clues to how tradeoffs are made and how it affects the overall health and function of an organism.
