Her work spans many fields from microbiology to biophysics, and lab studies eukaryotic cell motility as well as the hijacking of the cytoskeleton by intracellular parasites like listeria.
[1] She has also published work that describes the mechanisms of Galvanotaxis in vertebrate cells.
She is a professor at the University of Washington, Department of Biology, a continuing Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, and Chief Scientist at the Allen Institute for Cell Science.
[2] She was previously a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine,[3] and before that, she was a Predoctoral Fellow and Investigator at HHMI.
Her work has investigated bacterial infections, such as Shigella, and Listeria.