Postdoctoral Research Fellow (current)

How might the spatial organization of bacteria control microbial community composition? Currently developing imaging and microfluidic tools to answer this question in my postdoctoral research with Carolina Tropini and team (UBC).

PhD Thesis (MIT Microbiology)

How do rapid nutrient fluctuations - a pervasive feature of many microbial habitats - affect bacterial growth? With Roman Stocker and team (MIT & ETH Zürich), I combined microfluidics with single-cell imaging and image analysis to study the importance of temporal dynamics on bacterial physiology.

Earlier training

How do fruit flies transform from worms (i mean, larvae) to adult flies? With Amy Kiger and team (UC San Diego), I used genetic and biochemical tools and confocal microscopy to study how the membrane fission protein, Dynamin, affects membrane traffic during muscle cell maintenance and remodeling.

Broad scientific goals

How to communicate these cool questions effectively with myself, with other scientists, and with members of the public. I've specialized my research methods and communication style towards the create visual representations of the invisible processes that produce the miracle that is life!

For more details, check out my projects page or publications.