Amy received her B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as an undergraduate and research technician in the laboratory of Dr. Bill Dove. She did her PhD work at the University of Utah with Dr. Katie Ullman . Her thesis research identified a role for the nuclear pore complex in the disassembly of the nuclear envelope during mitosis. As a graduate student, she received fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the University of Utah graduate school.
For her postdoctoral fellowship, Amy returned to Wisconsin and the Craig lab in January 2007. She plans to study the roles of the ribosome-associated chaperone, Zuo1, in protein folding and cell signaling. Her initial studies will use FRET to characterize the stability of the interaction between Zuo1 and the ribosome.