Education
She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Surgery in Biology and Physics in 1988, and from the University of California, San Francisco, with a Doctor of Philosophy in Cell Biology in 1993.
She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Surgery in Biology and Physics in 1988, and from the University of California, San Francisco, with a Doctor of Philosophy in Cell Biology in 1993.
She was a Predoctoral Fellow, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Her work has investigated bacterial infections, such as Shigella, and Listeria.