Education

University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester, MA)

• Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• RNA Therapeutics Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Doctor of Philosophy, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
• Advisors: Melissa J. Moore & Phillip D. Zamore
• September 2007 – May 2014
• Developed novel ligation-based assays for long RNAs (1,000–10,000 nt) (eLife 2015)
• Characterized piRNA-producing lncRNAs using multi-omic HTS data (Molecular Cell 2013)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)

• Bachelor of Science with High Distinction
• September 2000 – May 2004
• Major: Biology & Biotechnology, Minor: Management