Current Courses

Fall 2024

  • PHARM 5130-001
    Foundations of Imm Path
  • PHARM 7355-001
    Integ Pharmaco Thera 3

Professional Organizations

  • 2024 American Society of Pharmacognosy Annual Meeting, Krakow, Poland. 01/2023 - 12/2024. Position : Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee.
  • American Society of Pharmacognosy. 01/2022 - present. Position : Member of the EDI Committee.
  • American Society of Pharmacognosy. 01/2020 - present. Position : Member of the Jobs Committee.
  • American Society of Pharmacognosy. 01/2020 - 12/2021. Position : Member of the Newsletter Committee.
  • 2020 International Congress on Natural Products Research. 01/2019 - 12/2020. Position : Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee.
  • American Society of Pharmacognosy. 01/2019 - 12/2020. Position : Member of the Conference Committee.
  • American Society of Pharmacognosy. 01/2016 - 12/2020. Position : Younger Members Committee, Chair.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science. 01/2013 - present. Position : Member.
  • American Chemical Society. 01/2013 - present. Position : Member.
  • American Society of Pharmacognosy. 01/2015 - present. Position : Member.
  • Affiliate member, Royal Society of Chemistry. 01/2021 - present. Position : Member.
  • Society of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 01/2021 - present. Position : Member.
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. 01/2015 - 01/2019. Position : Member.

Courses I Teach

  • PHARM 7355 - Integrated Pharmacotherapeutics
    Co-Course Master for 3rd year Pharmacy students - Fall 2017, Fall 2023
  • PHARM 5130 - Foundations in Immunology and Pathology
    Co-Course Master - Fall 2023
  • BLCHM 6300 - Capstone
    Facilitator and Examiner for 1st year PhD students - Spring 2023; Examiner for 1st year PhD students - Spring 2017 to Spring 2021
  • PHARM 5110 - Biochemistry
    1st year Pharmacy students - Fall 2016 to Fall 2022
  • PHARM 6253 - Integrated Pharmacotherapeutics
    Module Leader for 2nd year Pharmacy students - Spring 2017 to Spring 2022
  • PHARM 6251 - Recitation
    2nd year Pharmacy students - Spring 2020, Spring 2021
  • BIOL 5425 - Mycology
    undergraduate and graduate students - Fall 2017, Fall 2018
  • MDCH 7890 - Research Seminar
    Spring 2016 to Spring 2018; Fall 2015 to Fall 2017
  • MDCH 5220 - Medicinal Chemistry
    2nd year Pharmacy students - Spring 2015

Professional Experience

2023 - Present Co-host, Natural Prodcast with Dr. Dan Udwary (Joint Genome Institute) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/natural-prodcast/id1500947685
2014 Co-Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2011 - 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher, Professor Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2010 - 2011 Postdoctoral researcher, Professor Christian Hertweck, Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knoll Institute, Jena
2005 - 2010 Graduate research assistant, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA
2003 Intern, Vaccine Division at Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA

 

Administrative Experience

Grant Review Committee/Study Section

2023– 2027 Standing member, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Drug Discovery and Molecular Pharmacology A (DMPA) Study Section
2023 Scientific Reviewer, Genome Canada
2022– Present Stage 1 mail reviewer for the NIH Director’s DP1 Pioneer Award
2021– 2022 Ad Hoc Reviewer for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Drug   Discovery and Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance (DDR) Study Section (Jul 13-14, 2021; March 1-2, 2022; June 23-24, 2022 and the Dec 16th “DDR member conflict” study sections)
2021– Present Scientific Reviewer, Luxembourg National Research Fund 
2021 Ad Hoc Reviewer for National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Biological Chemistry and Macromolecular Biophysics Integrated Review Group, Special Emphasis Panel (Nov 22, 2021 meeting)
2019 – Present First Round Reviewer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
2018 – Present First Round Reviewer, L'Oréal USA for Women in Science Program
2015 – 2020 Scientific Reviewer, Genome Quebec Inc. 

Symposium/Meeting Chair/Coordinator

2025 Co-Organizer, Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Natural Products Meeting, San Diego, USA
2024 Co-Chair, FUSION, Synthetic Biology of Natural Products, Cancun, Mexico
2023 Convener, Marine Natural Products Chemical Biology and Biotechnology session, XVII MaNaPro International Symposium on Marine Natural Products, Granada, Spain
2022 Co-Chair, Chemical Biology section, Rising Stars Symposium, University of Utah
2022 Convener, Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology conference, San Francisco, CA, USA
2022 Session chair, Synthetic Biology for Natural Product Drug Production and Engineering, Marine Natural Products Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, USA 
2021 Session chair, Dec 18th Biosynthesis of Natural Products morning session, Pacifichem, Honolulu, HI, USA 
2021 Convener, New Natural Products and New Sources session, Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology conference, Austin, TX, USA
2020 Co-organized, moderated, and chaired the Younger Members virtual symposium for the American Society of Pharmacognosy, Summer 2020: 250 attendees from 35 countries.
2020 Convener, New Natural Products and New Sources session, Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology conference, San Francisco, CA (Canceled due to COVID)
2019 – 2020 Chair, Genomics in Natural Products Research session, International Congress on Natural Products Research, San Francisco, CA, USA (Canceled due to COVID)
2018 Moderator, Fungal and Plant II session for the Keystone Symposia on Natural Products and Synthetic Biology: Parts and Pathways, Olympic Valley, CA, USA