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Bio: Britta grew up in Warendorf, a small town in northwestern Germany and spent most of her life with her family, friends, and animals in her home country. Traveling has always been an important part of her life. She lived in Uganda, and the Philippines doing developmental aide work and learning about life. In 2000, she began studying biology at the Westfalian Wilhelm‘s University of Münster. In 2003, she received the ERASMUS Scholarship to study abroad in Trondheim, Norway. She was granted the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Scholarship to conduct her master’s thesis research at the University of Washington in 2005. For her master’s thesis, she investigated the behavior of Malayan sun bears in captivity and correlated it to social conditions and endocrine measurements. In 2006, she graduated with a Master’s degree in Biology, with emphases on behavioral biology and biochemistry. In her spare time, Britta enjoys running, yoga, hiking, rock climbing, and cooking vegan. Research: Britta joined the Lingappa lab in 2006 and is part of the HIV assembly team. She is working closely with Jonathan Reed to identify novel cellular factors critical for HIV assembly and to understand their mechanisms of action.
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