She is also an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Community College of Allegheny County/Allegheny Campus. Prior to this she worked as a Research Associate and then as a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Genomic Sciences at the Allegheny-Singer Research Institute. She first came to the University for postdoctoral training in the Department of Pathology after she earned her undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees in Zoology at the University of Madras, Chennai, India.