My primary research interests are in HIV biology and the host response to infection. I am currently working to understand the relationship between antibody-induced cross-linking of viral envelope proteins and antibody neutralization potency. I am also working to better understand the antibody response to HIV-2 ENV and its unique structural characteristics. The methods I use include dynamic mass photometry and Cryo-EM.
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1786-905X
I am a Skaggs-Oxford Scholar and joined the Struwe Lab in the Summer of 2024. I started my graduate work at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California in Andrew Ward’s lab in 2021. In the Ward lab my work was focused using Cryo-EM to study the structural biology of HIV-1 and HIV-2 envelope proteins. As an undergraduate, I worked in the lab of Bradford Berges using flow cytometry to study the HIV-1 protein Vpr. I obtained my B.S. in Microbiology from Brigham Young University in 2020. I am supported in my work by my patient wife and our three beautiful daughters.
