I was born French Canadian, in Montreal to be exact, in 1975. My family moved to San Antonio in 78, so I grew uin the good old Texas public school system while spending my summers as a kid back in Quebec which I still do when I can) I graduated from Texas Tech University in 1997 and realized that I liked Cell Biology, so I got lucky and ended uas a Research Assistant in an insulin signalling lab that Fall, all of which led me to a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. I met my boss, Larry Mandarino, PhD, when he interviewed me for grad school and we both left UTHSCSA for Arizona State University together in 2005, him as the Chair of Kinesiology a department that later went bye-bye) me as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Spent too long there before taking an Assistant Professor position at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz. in 2012. Realized pretty quickly that Mayo held no future for me, so we all ended uat the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson in the Fall of 2016, which turned out to be where we should have started in Arizona in the first place. Love the UA, so good to be back at a health science center and an institution that has a passion for basic biomedical research.