I am a scientist with a neuroscience-focused research background who switched career paths to take up an administrative and communications role at the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. I graduated with a PhD in Molecular Biology in 2019. My dissertation explored the impact of cytomegalovirus (a herpesvirus) infection on Alzheimer's disease markers in neuronal cells. Subsequently, I completed a 2-year PostDoc in Neuroimmunology during which I worked on translational & pre-clinical projects focused on pain and neuroinflammation in aging.

In my current position, I lead several departmental programs related to Internal Grants, NIH Centers established from collaborative institutional grants, educational initiatives for making bioinformatics and computational biology softwares accessible to the broader non-informatics scientific community at UTSW, and serve as liaison for Bioinformatics with UTSW's Faculty Advisory Board. My job duties include but are not limited to science communication, scientific review of grants and manuscripts, website and graphic design, administration of topic-based nanocourses, strategic marketing and branding, enabling new initiatives & collaborations, and being an overall resource for our department faculty.