My research is broadly focused on understanding how interactions between the physical microenvironment, cellular energy transformations, and stochastic control systems inform the emergent properties of cells and cell collectives. My integrative backgrounds in physiology and biochemistry have afforded me the flexibility to pursue relevant problems in a variety of translational research contexts including cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, cancer, systems pharmacology. My current and future work aims to solve basic and applied problems in animal fertility and reproduction. ECU Website 

I'm from Wake Forest North Carolina and completed my B.S. in Biology at ECU. I am pursuing an interdisciplinary Biology/Biochemistry PhD and am developing empirical and computational approaches to better understand (and predict) mammalian fertility. Following completion of my doctoral training, I plan to pursue a post-doctoral training abroad.   

I was born and raised in Eastern North Carolina, and I am proud of the area that I came from and the family who raised me. I graduated with an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from ECU in 2024, and I am currently pursuing a Master's degree in biology in the CAS lab. I am passionate about teaching and biology education and plan to pursue a PhD to gain the experience required to develop educational programs and teach at the university level. 

I come from a small town in Sampson County, NC, and I am currently a student in the IDPBBC Biology Concentration program. My professional aspirations are geared towards a career in the industry, with a particular focus on the development and application of computer algorithms, computational models, and statistical methods for the analysis and simulation of biological systems. The interdisciplinary nature of my program allows me the unique chance to integrate fields like biology and computer science into a customized project, facilitated by an interdisciplinary team of mentors.

We have training opportunities for interested students to come learn with us and get involved in our research. We also look for ways to provide research experiences for students who don't have the time or capability to be physically present in the lab by offering remote training opportunities focused on computationally intensive projects (no previous computation skills required). Interested students can inquire by sending a Curriculum Vitae (CV) to schmidtc18@ecu.edu.