Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, the Center for African Studies, the Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She runs a wild chimpanzee field research project in Kanyantale, Kibale National Park, Uganda, co-directs the Laboratory for Evolutionary Endocrinology (LEE), and heads the evolutionary metagenomics project at the University of Illinois. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and her Ph.D. from Stony Brook University.