5th International Conference on CRISPR Technologies
I’m honored to share that I was selected for a talk at this year’s International Conference on CRISPR Technologies! I presented on my recent work developing CRISPR-based single-layer AND and NAND logic gates in yeast. The conference organizers did ...
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InCS Hosts DEI Faculty-Student Discussion
Today InCS hosted a faculty-student discussion on DEI climate and culture in the Department of Chemistry at UW. A huge thanks to our faculty participants Al Nelson, Dianne Xiao, and Diana Knight. I did a lot of the organizing for this event and I’m h...
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ProCURE Hosts Undergraduate Research Panel
Today ProCURE hosted an undergraduate research panel featuring 6 awesome panelists. The panel was a great success with a lot of positive feedback from attendees! After some discussion ProCURE has decided to make this an annual event!
Learning How to Mentor: Part 2
I had an end of quarter meeting with the master’s student I am mentoring today. In addition to his accomplishments/progress this quarter, we reviewed my goals for him for winter quarter. These goals were: 1. Become comfortable with the nomenclatu...
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Working Together to Differentiate Stem Cells
I had a meeting today with an old collaborator, Alessandro Bertero. So excited for him to start up his own lab at the University of Turin in Italy! With any luck, we can soon have a CRISPR-based system in hiPSCs that will allow us to differentiate stem...
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ProCURE Meets with the Department Chair
In June of 2021, I headed a ProCURE (Promoting Chemistry Undergraduate Research Equity) initiative to survey undergraduate chemistry students in 100- and 200-level courses. The purpose of this survey was to identify barriers undergraduate students in t...
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PAPER PUBLISHED!
My first first-author paper has been published today on ACS Synthetic Biology’s website! Go check it out! CRISPR-Cas-Mediated Tethering Recruits the Yeast HMR Mating-Type Locus to the Nuclear Periphery but Fails to Silence Gene Expression
Learning How to Mentor: Part 1
This quarter I’ve been tasked with mentoring not one but TWO rotation students in our lab. As a first time (official) mentor to younger lab members, I’ve found that I’m learning just about as much as my rotons are - but on a completely different subjec...
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Fun Times Helping Undergrads at a Resume Development Workshop!
Had a great time tonight as a resume consultant for a resume writing workshop organized by TK Francis in partnership with UW's Black Student Union and Zeta Phi Beta Inc. I was serendipitously partnered with one of my former organic chemistry students, ...
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