She then received a Fulbright Program scholarship and went to the University of California at Riverside.

Here she studied the tryptophan sunthase bienzyme complex under the supervision of Michael Dunn.

[1] She completed her graduate studies in 1996, and was awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research fellowship to join Arthur Horwich at Yale University.

Her research considers the function and substrate recruitment mechanisms of bacterial degradation complexes, with a particular focus on Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

[2][3] Such bacteria rely on degradation pathways to survive the conditions inside the infected hosts.