I love working alongside ambitious people to tackle tough, impactful problems that leverage biology for good. I can be found digging into new areas (like a new lab robot or new assay), making it work, & blogging about my process. 🇨🇦 Edmonton → 🍑 Atlanta → 🦘Sydney → 🌉 San FranciscoWhile completing my PhD on bacteriophages (phages), the 'good' viruses that kill bacteria, I co-founded Phage Directory to help doctors find phage scientists willing to share their phages to rescue patients dying from antibiotic-resistant infections. Phage Directory is now the global phage community's central source of news & connection. We support thousands of phage professionals from 80+ countries, help clinicians source phages for their patients, and help organizations manage, grow & learn from their phage collections. Our 'Phage Alerts' system has helped physicians source phages for 60+ patients across more than a dozen countries, leading to at least 5 lives/limbs saved to date. In early 2022 my Phage Directory co-founder Jan and I joined the team launching Phage Australia, an Australia-wide phage therapy ecosystem. Phage Directory supported the informatics side, helping ensure the team can maximize insights it gets from its phage treatments. In this role I also dove fully back into the lab again, applying what I learned as a startup founder to designing and running the first version of Phage Australia's patient-ready phage manufacturing and QC process. We were able to set up a system that achieved a ~4-8-week turnaround per patient, 18 phage batches for 14 patients in our first year. I spent much of my time writing our SOPs, coming up with better ways of documenting and automating our process, and helping figure out how best to manage and leverage our library of hundreds of phages and unique integrated setting between lab & bedside, so we could go from 1 patient a month to 10 and beyond.As of May 2024 I've joined Paul Bollyky's lab at Stanford University to help set up a phage therapeutics pipeline to support in vivo phage delivery and cocktail development research, as well as clinical trials and compassionate phage treatments. I'm so excited to see what we can build! Alongside my lab roles, I love to write about my challenges and successes in the lab, and how I make decisions and manage the chaos of making patient-ready phages at Phage Australia (https://phageaustralia.org/blog), Jessica's TechBio Adventures (https://jessbio.substack.com/), and Capsid & Tail (https://phage.directory/capsid).