I am a bioinformatician trained with an emphasis on the interconnection of wet lab research and computational research. My academic and research training included eukaryotic biology, genome research, and wet lab training in addition to comprehensive training in theoretical and applied bioinformatics to allow the fluent communication between wet lab and bioinformatics.

I am working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and in the new Translational Cardiovascular Research Center (TCRC) at The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix .

My lab focuses on the interplay of different RNA species and their underlying functional networks in the heart.

Additionally, my lab develops new computational open source tools that can be used by other researchers in their field of interest.