I am a graduate student in the Entomology department. I am broadly interested in host-microbial interactions of the endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola and the host Acrythosiphon pisum, particularly in the genetic mechanisms involved in bacteriocyte regulation. I graduated from SUNY Geneseo in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and English. Before starting my graduate studies, I conducted research on cardiac development of mouse embryos in Michael Kotlikoff's lab.