B.S. University of California Davis
Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, School of Medicine

I am currently serving as a full-time lecturer in Introductory and General Chemistry.  My background is in Natural Products Chemistry and Instrumental Analysis as well as Molecular Pharmacology.  I spent 17 years working as a Criminalist in the Kern County Crime Lab in the areas of Toxicology and Forensic Biology/DNA.  Prior to this I spent several years as a Winemaker, Brandymaker and Wine Chemist in the California wine industry.

My areas of research include Methamphetamine neurotoxicity with emphasis on the metabolism of “unintended” by-products as well as the cellular mechanisms of both initial signaling in and the subsequent down-regulation of dopaminergic cells of the substantia nigra.