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Welcome to my website!
I have been teaching in NC public schools since the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prior to teaching I spent about 20 years in research at many different institutes around the world.
As an undergraduate at the University of California, Davis, I worked in a nutrition lab researching factors that influenced uptake of essential minerals during lactation in mammals. I graduated from U.C. Davis with a major in Physiology and a minor in Nutrition. I completed my PhD in Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles where I focused on the biophysics of electrical signaling in nerves. My research model was the squid (the giant axon) and every summer our lab traveled to the Marine Biological lab in Woods Hole, MA to spend 4 months collecting data. Of course this also included many calamari feasts! After completing my PhD, I traveled to Gottingen, West Germany (this was 1988 and Germany was still divided into East and West Germany!) to work at the Max Planck Institute in the lab of Professor Erwin Neher (1991 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology). There I continued my studies on the modulation of ion channels important in cell signaling.
Locally, I have worked at UNC Chapel Hill, NIEHS and, most recently, at Duke University where I studied the genetics of melanoma as a means to better understand each individual melanoma patient in the hopes of tailoring treatment to their disease.
As you might guess from the slideshows above, I love traveling with my partner John and, in particular, we love visiting national parks. All the pictures on my website are from my travels. I have 2 wonderful adult kids, my daughter lives, works and studies Nutrition in NYC and my son is working toward his PhD in Botany at UW Madison. I also enjoy knitting, gardening, cooking, running (I have completed a few marathons and a bunch of 1/2 marathons), and spending time with Dudley - our dachshund-terrier mix.
I look forward to the coming year!
I have been teaching in NC public schools since the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prior to teaching I spent about 20 years in research at many different institutes around the world.
As an undergraduate at the University of California, Davis, I worked in a nutrition lab researching factors that influenced uptake of essential minerals during lactation in mammals. I graduated from U.C. Davis with a major in Physiology and a minor in Nutrition. I completed my PhD in Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles where I focused on the biophysics of electrical signaling in nerves. My research model was the squid (the giant axon) and every summer our lab traveled to the Marine Biological lab in Woods Hole, MA to spend 4 months collecting data. Of course this also included many calamari feasts! After completing my PhD, I traveled to Gottingen, West Germany (this was 1988 and Germany was still divided into East and West Germany!) to work at the Max Planck Institute in the lab of Professor Erwin Neher (1991 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology). There I continued my studies on the modulation of ion channels important in cell signaling.
Locally, I have worked at UNC Chapel Hill, NIEHS and, most recently, at Duke University where I studied the genetics of melanoma as a means to better understand each individual melanoma patient in the hopes of tailoring treatment to their disease.
As you might guess from the slideshows above, I love traveling with my partner John and, in particular, we love visiting national parks. All the pictures on my website are from my travels. I have 2 wonderful adult kids, my daughter lives, works and studies Nutrition in NYC and my son is working toward his PhD in Botany at UW Madison. I also enjoy knitting, gardening, cooking, running (I have completed a few marathons and a bunch of 1/2 marathons), and spending time with Dudley - our dachshund-terrier mix.
I look forward to the coming year!
