She completed her doctoral training in bacterial pathogenesis at the University of Pennsylvania where, under Hao Shen, PhD, she examined how similar virulence factors of Listeria monocotygenes and Bacillus anthracis modulated innate and adaptive immune responses. As a post-doctoral fellow with Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., F.R.S., in the Department of Immunobiology at Yale University, she began her studies on interleukin-22 (IL-22), an