My Publications

An article from the Elde Lab that I contributed to, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution. In the paper, we show that a number of proteins involved in the type 2 immune response pathway have been under strong positive selection. (Link to GBE website)

My undergraduate honors thesis, published in the University of Utah Undergraduate Research Journal. This paper is a deep dive into the evolutionary history of Eosinophil Major Basic Protein, the immune factor I spent most of my time studying in the Elde Lab, and its broader role in immunity.

A poster I presented at the annual Human Genetics Department Retreat during my senior year of college.

An Augmented Reality game on iOS where the player shoots blobs of glue at microbes to stick them to microscope slides. Part of the program I helped design and implement while interning at ARUP Laboratories during the summer of 2018.

Part of the work I did as a graduate research assistant in the Schneider Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. My project involved developing an augmented reality system for the Microsoft Hololens to help visualize sensor values from a little computer called a Gogo Board. This video shows a robot we built that demonstrates some of the AR visualizations.

An informal blog post explaining the research I did while working at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. I was a very small part of the MPI's broader goal to create a completely artificial cell, which scientists could use as a basic biological "chassis" for future biotech research. My primary focus was establishing a microfluidics system to reliably create microscopic vesicles.