
Associate Professor
Education
B.S. – Biochemistry, University of California, Davis
Ph.D. – Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow – Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow – Laboratory of Radiobiology and Environmental Health, University of California, San Francisco
Teaching
- BIOL 1C Systems Biology
- BIOL 175 Molecular Biology
- BIOL 177 Biotechnology Lab II: Gene Expression & Protein Purification
- BIOL 179 Cancer Biology
Research
Our research program examines the molecular events that occur when DNA polymerases, the enzymes responsible for duplicating DNA, encounter damaged DNA. Our research can be divided into three major themes: