I'm passionate about leveraging science to make a better world. I've previously worked on problems related to cancer biology, chromatin biology, liver transplant immunology, and Wnt signaling. Presently, I am developing technologies for using a non-model organism to understand the functional genomics of climate change-related stress responses. There is a glaring gap in knowledge in this field that is presently intractable because of a lack of developed technologies for addressing it - there are no scalable methods for genetic perturbation in the vast majority of keystone marine organisms, nor in models of those organisms. Addressing this gap, and applying the technologies I develop to understand the biology of climate change-related physiological stress is my present obsession. Longer-term, I am targeting a career that meets three criteria - I want to do cool, cutting-edge science, I want to make a meaningful impact on areas near to my heart (e.g., social justice, health outcomes disparities, climate change), and I want to work/live near the ocean. I am not interested in full-time employment offers right now, but am always interested in learning about the people, communities, and organizations doing work near to my heart. On a personal level, I'm a lover of the very new, the very old, and all things science, technology, and social justice. I'm an avid scuba diver and hiker, a travel enthusiast, and I cook like Julia Child (for the joy of it, for the love of bringing the people I love together over a good meal, and with an excess of butter).
Listed skills include Primary Cell Isolation, Viral Vectors, Multi Color Flow Cytometry, Luminex, and 34 others.