Originally from New Hampshire, I attended Proctor Academy and developed a love of science from my high school coursework. Unable to decide whether I liked my chemistry or biology courses better, I chose both, majoring in Biochemistry at the University of Vermont. While at the University of Vermont I completed an undergraduate thesis project in the Hondal Lab, developing an affinity chromatography resin that can selectively bind proteins with thiol modifications, and elute them without removing those thiol modifications.
\nI knew when I finished college that I intended to pursue my PhD, but I wanted more experiences in scientific research before starting my PhD. After graduating, I moved to Boston and started working at Entrada Therapeutics in downstream protein purification, purifying recombinant antibody fragments from E. coli and yeast. A year later, I left Entrada for a role at Repertoire Immune Medicines, where I joined the yeast display team, leveraging yeast display to affinity mature TCRs against novel tumor-antigens. My industry experience fostered a passion for disease-focused research, with the hope of discovering new potential targets for therapeutics.<\/p>\n
Having always harbored an interest in prion diseases since learning about them in my AP Biology class, I entered BU hoping to find a lab researching neurodegenerative disorders. I joined Dr. David Harris\u2019 lab in the summer of 2025, where I am now investigating mechanisms of resistance to genetic CJD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8106,"template":"","tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19358,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19230\/revisions\/19358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}