Her current research focuses on technologies to explore and engineer the human microbiome, the communities of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that inhabit all areas of the human body and play an integral role in human health. She has significant training in genomics, genetics, and technology development, completing postdoctoral training at the National Human Genome Research Institute, her Ph.D. in genetics at Stanford University under renowned geneticist and technologist Ronald Davis, and her B.A. from Harvard University at the FAS Center for Systems Biology.