Education
exp. 2025 — Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics (UW-Madison)
2018 — B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (UCLA)
Publications
2024 — “Intersectional hybrids of the relict species, Box huckleberry (Gaylussacia brachycera), with Dwarf huckleberry (G. dumosa)”. HortScience. Accepted.
2024 — “Intersectional hybrids between Darrow’s blueberry (V. darrowii Camp) and Lingonberry (V. vitis-idaea L.)”. Plants, 13, 1572.
2023 — “Triploid hybrids of 2x lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) by 2x Black Highbush blueberry (V. fuscatum) and 2x Elliott’s Blueberry (V. elliottii) as evidence of genome balance requirement for hybridization success”. Horticulturae, 9, 1308.
2023 — “Fertile intersectional F1 hybrids of 4x Andean blueberry (Vaccinium meridionale) and 4x American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)”. HortScience, 58(2):234-239.
2023 — “A survery of key methods, traits, parameters, and conditions for measuring texture in cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.)”. Horticulturae, 9, 479.
2023 — “The septate junction component bark beetle is required for Drosophila intestinal barrier function and homeostasis”. iScience, 26, 106901.
Service
2023 — Vice President, Plant Science Graduate Student Council (PSGSC)
2022 — Journal Club Chair, PSGSC
Fellowships and Scholarships
2024-2025, SciMed Graduate Research Scholars Fellowship
2024, Bayer Crop Science Travel Award
2021-2022, SciMed Graduate Research Scholars Fellowship
2016, Stanford University Summer Research Program Scholarship
2015-2017, UCLA MARC Scholarship
2015, SACNAS National STEM Conference Travel Award