Education:
Ph.D. in Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences, Marine Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 2004.

• Dissertation: "Swimming for Sulfur: Analysis of the Roseobacter-Dinoflagellate Interaction" Link

B.S. in Biological Sciences: St. Norbert College, DePere, WI. 1998.

Employment History:
Research Associate, laboratory of Katherine McMahon, Ph.D., Department of Bacteriology and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, WI. October 2007 – Present.

Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Rolf Halden, Ph.D., P.E., Environmental Health Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. November 2004 – October 2007.