Undergraduate Student Researcher
Biography
I’m a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Applied Biotechnology B.S.A.B in UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, minoring in biology and completing an Undergraduate Certificate in One Health under UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. I’m an aspiring veterinary pathologist with a strong interest in comparative pathology and the reverse translational paradigm. I currently work as a Necropsy Student Trimmer in the Department of Pathology and serve as the Vice President of UGA’s Pre-Veterinary Medicine club and an ELS Peer Leader. I’ve volunteered at several research labs at UGA and have studied in vivo murine models of osteoarthritis and hypophosphatasia, pathological lesions in Virginia opossums, parasite ecology of marsh periwinkles, and vector ecology of ticks and mosquitoes. I joined the SMART Pharmacology Lab because I wanted to study organoid technology and their applications in personalized medicine and One Health. I’m interested in researching organoids derived from spontaneous animal models of diseases present in both humans and animals and utilizing a One Health approach to reduce the need for laboratory animal models in drug development and disease modeling.
