Faculty & Scientific Staff

Tayla earned her BS in biochemistry and history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014, and she spent the next six years working as a technician/lab manager in several immunology-focused labs in Seattle. Notably, in Dr. Sean Murphy’s lab, she developed a pre-clinical T cell-based malaria vaccine.

Tayla is now a graduate student at the University of Washington in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program where she aims to obtain her PhD studying T and B cell responses to commensal microbes in health and disease.

When not at the bench, she enjoys all manner of outdoor pursuits, baking and gardening.