I am currently a doctoral student working in the lab of Dr. Prahathees Eswara at the University of South Florida. Currently, my research focuses on the characterization of novel cell division factors in Gram-positive bacteria, and I actively use both Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus as model organisms to carry out these studies. Much of my work is heavily fluorescence microscopy focused, and I have been trained in both high-resolution and super-resolution (3D-SIM) fluorescence microscopy.