I am a PhD candidate in the Andrew J. Link Lab at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. I use a combination of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and systems biology tools to study basic biological processes and the diseases mechanisms. I am interested in translational control, the regulation of protein synthesis. I am working with budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to decipher the role of the ribosome as a translational control element. In a separate project, I am using a combination of quantitative proteomics and transcriptomics (in collaboration with Nripesh Prasad in Shawn Levy Lab at Hudsonalpha Institute for Biotechnology) of skeletal muscles from Myotonic Dystrophy patients and healthy individuals to study the disease mechanism. I am also part of a large collaborative effort by a group of scientists and clinicians at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and HAIB studying safety of vaccines in human subjects using systems biology tools.