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I am honored to be nominated for the ACA Light Sources SIG Chair. I have been a member of the ACA since 2022 and have presented my work through poster sessions and an oral presentation in the 2023 Serial Crystallography session, where I was recognized with the Margaret Etter Student Lecturer Award.
I am currently a beamline and research scientist at the Industrial Macromolecular Crystallography Association Collaborative Access Team (IMCA-CAT) at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). I earned my B.A. in Biology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016 and my M.S. in Biology from Northeastern Illinois University, where my work centered on understanding light-induced structural changes in myxobacterial phytochrome using cryo-crystallography and time-resolved serial crystallography, collecting data at APS and SACLA.
My fascination with light sources led me to pursue a Ph.D. at the Paul Scherrer Institute and the University of Basel in Switzerland, where I developed a new sample delivery method for serial crystallography and gained extensive hands-on experience at multiple beamlines. I was involved in the commissioning of Cristallina’s SwissMX end station and provided user support for time-resolved serial crystallography beam times at SwissFEL and the Swiss Light Source. My doctoral work also focused on tailoring biotin-streptavidin interactions for binding studies using time-resolved protein crystallography.
I have participated in and supported experiments at major facilities including APS, SACLA, SLS, SwissFEL, LCLS, PAL, and the European XFEL. Currently, at APS, I am involved in advancing high-throughput cryo-crystallography methods. I am deeply passionate about light sources and the crystallography community, and I am excited for the opportunity to contribute as LS-SIG Chair Elect by fostering collaboration, innovation, and engagement among users and developers.
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