Professional Activities

Postitions and Honors

Employment
Associate Director – Host-Microbe Systems Biology Core, University of California, Davis: 2012 to present
Research Faculty - Associate Research Microbiologist, University of California, Davis: 2005 to present
Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis: June 2001 to 2005
Graduate Student, Microbiology, UC Davis: September 1995 to May 2001
Molecular Biologist, Biosource Technologies, Vacaville, CA: July1994 to September 1995
Science Teacher, Benicia High School, Benicia, CA: September 1992 to June 1993

Awards/Organizations
NIH Student Loan Repayment Award for Clinical Researchers (2008 to 2012)
Laboratory Management Institute, UC Davis (2006)
Member: American Society for Microbiology (since 1998)
Member: American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (since 2002)
North-Central California Center for AIDS Research Fellowship (01/02-12/03)
NIH/UCDavis Biotechnology Program Fellowship (01/97-06/99)
Jastro-Shields Graduate Student Fellowship (1996, 1997, and 1998)