I am a postdoc at the University of Oregon in Patrick Phillips Lab focusing on the developing of transgenic technologies and applying them for experimental evolution.

I have always enjoyed thinking about genetic engineering and how to make it easier, faster, and increasing its utility. As an undergraduate at the University of Utah, I worked in the lab of Erik Jorgensen, where I focused on building RNAi resistant genes. After graduating, I joined the first C. elegans transgenic company, Knudra Transgenics, to work on optimizing and implementing CRISPR, along with various other genetic tech. As a graduate student in the Phillips Lab at the University of Oregon, I continued to work in genetic engineering, building the TARDIS system, which allows us to significantly increase the throughput of our CRISPR experiments. I am applying TARDIS to build large, barcoded populations of C. elegans for evolutionary lineage tracking.