Education

• Postdoctoral, Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 2016
• Postdoctoral, Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2010
• PhD, Microbiology, Kansas State University, 2009
• MS, Department of Biological Sciences, Fort Hays State University, 2005
• BS, Department of Biological Sciences, Fort Hays State University, 2003

Research Interests

Microbiology, bacterial genetics, bacterial physiology, virulence, co-infection host-pathogen interactions, innate immunity, immunometabolism, wound repair, diabetic infections

Research Summary

I am interested in defining the metabolic basis for bacterial virulence potential as well as understanding metabolic reprogramming of innate immune cells required to prevent infection. I am also interested in how metabolic dynamics change during infections in populations at high risk for infection such individuals with diabetes.

Available to Mentor

Undergraduate and Graduate Students