Bio:

Katie currently works as a Research Associate II with the Molecular Genetics team. She is originally from the Seattle area and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Washington with a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. She began her career in Virology and Infectious Disease research as an undergraduate intern, working to deep sequence HIV viral variants in high viral load and low viral load macaques. She then transitions to a project studying the connection between HIV infection and Liver Disease with a specific focus on special biology, microbiome transcriptomics, and immunogenetics.