My PhD is in parasite immunology (Nottingham University, UK), and my post-doctoral research focused on parasitology and infectious disease, relating to macrophage biology (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Cambridge University, UK).  As non-tenured faculty, I continued my research into myeloid function and inflammation at Washington University Medical School, in St. Louis and moved with the WUM lab to UCSF. Later, I joined UCSF’s Alliance for Cellular Signaling lab, where I spent 8 years investigating G-protein coupled receptors (in B cells and macrophages). After leaving the AfCS, I became a registered US patent agent, working as a consultant biomedical writer in research translation with The J. David Gladstone Institutes. I joined the part-time faculty in the Biotechnology Program at CCSF community college (2017) and returned to UCSF as a 'Specialist' in Parnassus Flow Cytometry Core May 2019.