In the NEWS

Our research that was published in Cell Chemical Biology focused on delivering bispecific antibodies to the brain utilizing CD98hc was featured in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.

My bio was shared as part of the 500 Queer Scientists campaign. The mission of this organization is to increase LGBTQ+ visibility in STEM to ultimately provide role models for future generations of researchers. Read more about me and how science influenced my coming out story!

FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Diversity Resources program awarded 4 recipients for the Protein Society 33rd Annual Symposium. These awards are meant to encourage participation and promote the entry of trainees and early-career scientists into the mainstream of the basic sciences community.

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an international competition amongst the entire Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin, in which graduate students use approachable language and concepts to explain their research to a general audience in three minutes or less. I was awarded Runner-Up for my talk titled, Influence of Exogenous Materials on Amyloid-Beta Nucleation

I was awarded top-presenter for the Chemical Engineering Department's 2018 Graduate Seminar Series, as voted by attending first-year and third-year Ph.D. students, for my talk Influence of Exogenous Materials on the Nucleation of Amyloid-Beta​.

ExxonMobil's Baytown Technology and Engineering Center hosted 80 graduate students from 6 universities for its annual Partners in Academic Laboratory Safety (PALS) Workshop. As part of this workshop, fellow graduate students and I presented on current lab safety protocols, seeking feedback to improve existing programs and best practices.​