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As an undergraduate, I attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a B.S. in Biology. In 1990, I spent a summer at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, where I took courses in Invertebrate Biology and Marine Ecology. In addition, as an undergraduate, I pursued various research projects with Dr. Franklin Barnwell on development of morphological traits and on circadian and circatidal rhythms in Fiddler crabs.
I did my graduate school work in the lab of Dr. George Somero at Oregon State University and Stanford University (Hopkins Marine Station). My Ph.D. research centered on the comparative analysis of evolutionary adaptations to environmental stress of intertidal and subtidal porcelain crabs from throughout the eastern Pacific. Those studies involved research on a wide range of biological levels: from whole organism to molecular. After defending my doctoral thesis, I went to Antarctica for 5 weeks as a teaching assistant in the NSF-sponsored course in polar biology (see my Antarctic logs here). I was then a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University in the lab of Dr. Ernesto Freire, where I studied the thermodynamics of SH2 and SH3 regulatory domains of the tyrosine kinase Lck. I then spent one year at Occidental College where I taught courses in molecular biology and biochemistry. I then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University where I was researching the physiological and molecular bases that set the thermal limits of heart and nerve function in porcelain crab species from different thermal habitats.
I started a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Zoology Department at the University of Hawaii in the fall of 2003 and had a great island time for 2 years. However, the lush tropical scenery and beautiful white beaches were not my destiny, and I left UH in the fall of 2005 for the chilly fog of San Francisco where I am now a research scientist and assistant professor at the Romberg Tiburon Center and Department of Biology at San Francisco State University.
In my spare time, I like to spend time with my Collie dogs (pictured are Jasmine (L, dec.) and Mookie (R)), as seen below during a hike in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C.
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