2025
Computational biology consulting, specializing in metagenomics and multi-omics integration.
2024
Developing novel sequencing technologies and applications.
2020
Microbiome analysis and research services.
2019
Microbiome therapeutics through ecosystem management and omics analysis.
2018
Research on neonatal intensive care unit microbiomes.
2018
Research on microbial transmission in NICU rooms using machine learning and metagenomics.
2017
Research on microbial strain transmission from hospital surfaces to infants and environmental adaptation.
2016
Research presentation on microbial ecology at the 16th International Society for Microbial Ecology Congress.
2015
Research presentation on NICU microbial transmission at the International Human Microbiome Congress 2015.
2015
Research on microbial metabolism in premature infants using metaproteomics, revealing insights into oxygen presence and strain-level competition.
2015
Research on microbial strain sharing in premature infants with necrotizing enterocolitis, revealing unexpected diversity in microbial colonization patterns.
2014
Pilot study on microbial transmission in NICU environments and its impact on preterm infant microbiomes, revealing room-infant microbial relationships.
2013
Head organizer of the Microbiology Student Group Spring Symposium at UC Berkeley, coordinating speakers and managing logistics for this annual research event.
2013
Final research poster presenting findings from our pilot study on microbial transmission between NICU environments and preterm infant microbiomes.
2011
Graduate rotation project comparing DNA extraction kits for Crohn's disease cohort studies. Presented at BAGECO 2011; see poster for details.
2009
Interdisciplinary art-science project fusing microbiology with Renaissance art, featuring a bacterial recreation of The Creation of Adam.
2008
Research poster presented at the 2008 Wentz Spring Research Symposium: The Effects of Tanning Beds on the Normal Microbial Floral of the Human Skin by B. Brooks.
Aug 17, 2026
Microbial ecology spent twenty years learning that in low-biomass samples, the thing you measure is partly your reagents. Single-cell has the same exposure, most of the same tooling gaps, and none of the same scar tissue — and the field is moving into exactly the regime where it starts to matter.
Aug 5, 2026
Journal Safari #3. Pan-human Azimuth puts 27 million cells from 23 tissues on one annotation tree, then classifies them with a model 70× smaller than the foundation model I read in July — and wins. The contribution is not the model. It is the labels.
Jul 31, 2026
California just gave my daughter free transitional kindergarten, and I'm thrilled. Then I saw the bell schedule. A data-driven look at how American school days and American work days stopped speaking to each other.