In January 2008 I received my Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University.  There I worked for James Spudich in the biochemistry department where I developed single molecule fluorescence assays to study processive myosins.  I also created analysis tools for single probe localization and colocalization with Henrik Flyvbjerg at the Technical University of Denmark.

Currently I am a postdoctoral researcher with Jonathan Weissman at UCSF.  I am developing quantitative methods to study molecular motors in vivo. Eventually I plan to return to single molecule in vitro assays to analyze the complexities of their in vivo context in finer detail.