My group studies how signaling by the gut hormone Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP) impacts gut microbiome composition and plays an important role in fat deposition and inflammation that can lead obesity and other chronic conditions.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, NDSU (2004-2012)
Research Immunologist at the University of California, San Francisco (2002-2004)
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow athe University of California, San Francisco (2000-2002)
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (1998-2000)