Dr. Graveel received her B.A. in chemistry from Kalamazoo College in 1996 and worked as a research associate at Pharmacia and Upjohn Inc. from 1996–1997. She then attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she received her Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology in 2002. She performed her postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. George Vande Woude at VAI from 2002–2007 and was promoted to research scientist in 2007 and senior research scientist in 2010. Dr. Graveel then served as a research assistant professor in Dr. Vande Woude’s laboratory until 2016, when she accepted a position in the Steensma Laboratory.