I am a bioinformatician working in the University of Washington's Department of Medicine. My work uses bioinformatic and computation approaches to explore complex gene/genetic regulation of human immune response to allergy and infectious diseases. In the labs of Dr's Tom Hawn and Matt Altman, my research focuses on  on genetic regulation of human susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis  as well as gene interactions involved in response to allergy & asthma drug therapies.

I earned my PhD at Stanford University working with Kabir Peay on plant and microbial community ecology. My dissertation focused on the role of soil fertility and plant-fungal interactions in shaping seedling growth & survival in tropical forests. My work was conducted at Lambir Hills National Park, in Sarawak, Malaysia.
 
I am broadly interested in how complex interactions influence higher level systems, whether that's how plant-fungal interactions in soils determine tropical forest composition or how gene expression networks regulate response to airborne allergens!