Ph.D., Molecular Biology: Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1997
     Thesis: Biochemical interactions of poliovirus polymerase with its single-stranded RNA template, Dr. Karla Kirkegaard, advisor
     Member of the organizing committee for MCDB's Graduate Student Symposium "Self vs Nonself: Modes of Organismal Recognition and Defense," April 25-27, 1995

B.S., Biological Sciences: University of California, Irvine, 1989
        Undergraduate research in cancer immunotherapy, Dr. Gale "Morrie" Granger, advisor

My formative years were spent doing twelve years in Catholic schools -- including four at Rosary High, an all-girls Catholic high school. Senior year I was captain of the Red Team and we kicked ass.