I am a postdoctoral fellow in Jonathan Weissman’s laboratory at UCSF.  I am currently investigating the in vivo mechanism of RNA polymerase and the regulation of transcriptional directionality using a deep sequencing approach.

In January 2008 I received my Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University.  I worked for James Spudich in the biochemistry department where I investigated the mechanisms by which myosin V and myosin VI move processively along actin.  These mechanistic insights required the development of  a single molecule fluorescence technique that allowed high resolution colocalization. I also created analysis tools for single probe localization, orientation and colocalization with Henrik Flyvbjerg at the Technical University of Denmark.