Academic degrees:

• B.A., Concordia College-Moorhead
• Ph.D., University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
• Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health

Courses taught:

Microbiology, Immunology

Research interests:

Early life immune ontogeny with consideration of how a developing immune system impacts host responses to vaccines. Additional interests include influenza vaccines, B cell immunology, and sex differences