Education
•    University of Paris, Post-doc, Mutagenesis. Nov1999- Dec 2000

•    Stanford University, Ph.D., Cancer Biology, 1992-1999

•    University of Vermont, B.S. Biology, 1989-1992

Employment

•    Professor, Portland State University 2005-present.
                Genomic Stability, Mutagenesis, Cancer, and DNA Replication and DNA repair.

•    Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University, Dec 2001-2005.
                Genomic Stability, Mutagenesis, Cancer, and DNA Replication and DNA repair.

•    Postdoctoral Research, University of Paris, Nov 1999-Nov 2000.
                With Dr. Miroslav Radman. Characterization of the genetic and mechanistic barriers to interspecies recombination.

•    Dissertation Research, Stanford University, 1994-1999.
                With Dr. Philip C. Hanawalt. Recovery of DNA Replication in Escherichia coli Irradiated with Ultraviolet Light, 1999.

•    Graduate Research, Stanford University, 1992-1994
                With Dr. Michael Lieber. Generation of antigenic diversity in the immune system.  Biochemical studies elucidating the mechanisms of immunoglobulin class switch and V-D-J recombination.

•    Undergraduate    Research,    University    of    V ermont,    1989-1992
                With Dr. Susan S. Wallace. Inducible responses to oxygen stress in Escherichia coli and the mutagenic variability of DNA lesions based upon sequence context.