I grew up in Indonesia and then moved to Waco, Texas where I attended Baylor University to complete a B.S. in Biochemistry. I spent the majority of my time at Baylor working as an undergraduate researcher, specializing in DNA manipulation and protein purification, and focused on the functions and effects of replication factors MCM8, MCM9, Dpo1, and Dpo4 on the DNA replisome. I am also a recent graduate of the M.S. in Biomedical Sciences program at Larkin University.