Education

Professional interests

My professional interests include developing novel culture systems for the recapitulation of physiological cell microenvironments, directed differentiation and maintenance of adult bone marrow stem cells and translational research.

Honors

• USDA Agriculture Genome Sciences and Public Policy Fellow
Gamma Sigma
• Delta Agricultural Honor Society; 2002
Bronze Tablet; 2003
James Scholar; 1999-2003
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
• Junior Member of International Society of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), Travel Grant award 2007