Brenna is a Ph.D. candidate in the Molecular and Cell Biology Department at UC Berkeley. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Cornell University. As an undergraduate, she studied the role of sirtuin enzymes in breast cancer progression in Dr. Robert Weiss’s lab. Currently, she is a member of Dr. Russell Vance’s lab where she investigates how innate immune cells sense and respond to the virulence activities of pathogens.