Amanda Tomalka received her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology in 2014, where she studied type III secretion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Amanda joined the Popkin lab in 2016 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and has been focusing her efforts on HIV cure strategies, specifically Natural Killer (NK) cell biology and viral reservoir elimination by NK cell antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC).