About me

My history

I was born in 1992 in Carson City, Nevada, where I developed a love for the high desert and the Sierra Nevada mountains. After a brief period in Elko, Nevada, my family relocated to Eureka, California, where I discovered a new love for the Pacific Ocean and the Redwoods.

My academic journey began at College of the Redwoods where I found dedicated professors who fueled my passion for learning. This early college experience proved invaluable as I completed Associate of Arts degrees in math and science. Following this I attended Princeton University and in 2015 I graduated with a B.S.E. in computer science and a minor in quantitative and computational biology. During my time at Princeton, I worked in the lab of Alison Gammie improving the reference genome for the yeast strain W303. In 2016, I joined the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington in pursuit of a PhD, ultimately joining the lab of Evan E. Eichler to study the sequence and assembly of segmental duplications in humans and nonhuman primates. I am continued my work in the Eichler lab as a postdoctoral fellow while making contributions to the T2T and HPRC. Currently, I am in Andrew Stergachis’ lab at the University of Washington deepening my understanding of gene regulation and human disease.

To learn about my dog classification system see here (credit Michelle Noyes).

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