I am a second year gra­duate stu­dent from MCIP. I have a B.S. in Bioche­mistry and Mole­cu­lar Bio­logy from the Uni­ver­sity of Cali­for­nia, Irvine. I am currently using a mass spec­tro­me­ter based approach to study the pro­tea­some and its asso­cia­ting proteins.