Oct 2, 2018My favorite biology gifsA study from the Dalia and Brun labs at Indiana University (go Hoosiers!) showed images of how Vibrio cholera can use pili to capture and take up nearby DNA. …Science7 min readScience7 min read
Mar 26, 2017Trump has no science teamFrom the fervor over the March for Science to Trump’s budget calling for major science cuts to a climate change denier running the EPA, it’s clear that there’s tension between Trump and the scientific community. But science and the government need each other. The government funds the majority of basic…Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Nov 15, 2016Geographic polarization of U.S. scienceIs science as segregated as our politics? — Even before the election I was thinking about how clustered our scientific institutions are. …Science4 min readScience4 min read
Aug 1, 2016Hillary Clinton, our pro-science candidateThe political conventions have ended and the major political parties have their candidates. Republicans have Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Democrats have Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. Both sides will hammer their issues and talking points, but will any candidate stand for science? Well, one of their four convention acceptance…Science5 min readScience5 min read
Jun 18, 2016Why I donated bone marrow to a stranger and how you can tooI feel like I did something. I feel that I gave a young man a chance in his fight against leukemia. I was only a part of the process, but trust me, it feels good to give a part of yourself that can give someone else hope for a future. How I got registered …Health5 min readHealth5 min read
Mar 6, 20162015 was a year of ‘kill switches’ for engineered microbes2015 was a year of ‘kill switches’ for engineered microbes In January 2015, well-known synthetic biologist Jim Collins declared that it would be the “year of the kill switch” in synthetic biology. He was speaking at MIT Synthetic Biology Center’s annual meeting and I was a first year graduate student…Science3 min readScience3 min read
