Current Status

• Research Assistant Professor of Arkansas Biosciences Institute
  
  

Education

• PhD - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
  
• MS - Biochemistry-Muscle Biology, Iowa State University
  
• BS - Biology and Chemistry, Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois
  
  
  

Research Focus Areas:

• Transgenic plants for the production of high-value human proteins targeted for anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer therapeutics.
• Designing molecular-based high throughput diagnostics for plant and food industries.
• Characterizing plant gene promoter occupancy in planta in efforts to design more robust promoters for expression of human proteins in transgenic plants.
• This position at the Biosciences Institute has an entrepreneurial component with the intent to integrate biotechnology into the regional commercial sector through joint ventures and other business relationships.