Blog team!

What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?

What the heck is going on inside a germinal center??

What's your favorite lab technique?

Flow cytometry

What's your go-to coffee/tea order?

A hot latte

What's your favorite graduate school memory?

Playing board games/ video games with my cohort on any trip - Wii sports, Super mario party, jackbox, secret hitler, jenga, cards- nobody gets as competitive as us, and it's my favorite group of people to spend time with!

What would you be doing in an alternate universe?

A translator! I really love learning languages and would have loved that hobby to become my career.

What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?

How viruses manipulate their hosts

What's your favorite lab technique?

Protein purification

What's your go-to coffee/tea order?

Iced latte with seasonal flavor

What's your favorite graduate school memory?

Hanging out with everyone on my first virology program retreat

What would you be doing in an alternate universe?

Personal trainer

What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?

How have viruses evolved alongside humans and vice versa

What's your favorite lab technique?

Cryo-EM

What's your go-to coffee/tea order?

Iced Mocha/London Fog

What's your favorite graduate school memory?

My PI sticking the "Science Matters" sticker I'd brought back from a vendor fair on his office door (and its still there!)

What would you be doing in an alternate universe?

Journalism

What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?

How does my fuzzy silly chunky cat know who I am??

What's your favorite lab technique?

Flow cytometry!

What's your go-to coffee/tea order?

Iced latte with whatever specialty syrup they have

What's your favorite graduate school memory?

Ski trip with my cohort <3

What would you be doing in an alternate universe?

Bartender or dancer

What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?

Protein synthesis with reversed chirality

What's your favorite lab technique?

Cryo-electron microscopy

What's your go-to coffee/tea order?

Large iced latte

What's your favorite graduate school memory?

Dinner parties with my cohort!

What would you be doing in an alternate universe?

Working in a romance bookstore

What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?

How can we be best prepared for future spillover of animal viruses?

What's your favorite lab technique?

Freezing cryo-EM grids

What's your go-to coffee/tea order?

Lavender iced chai with oat milk

What's your favorite graduate school memory?

Cohort late fall/early winter hiking trip to New Hampshire

What would you be doing in an alternate universe?

Ideally photography for touring bands

What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?

Re-entry of memory B cells into germinal centers

What's your favorite lab technique?

Co-Immunoprecipitations

What's your go-to coffee/tea order?

Iced Oat Milk Latte with a shot of vanilla

What's your favorite graduate school memory?

Finishing Virology 200 and getting lunch at TGI Friday’s afterwards with my cohort

What would you be doing in an alternate universe?

Probably something in agriculture. I’ve always really liked gardening and working with animals.
 

What scientific question are you currently obsessed with?

Why do my flower bushes grow so big but nothing blooms??

What's your favorite lab technique?

Flow cytometry

What's your go-to coffee/tea order?

Iced tea and lemonade (who needs hot tea?)

What's your favorite graduate school memory?

Our first year retreat to Maine during MLK weekend where we spent time skiing, cooking, and playing games with each together. It was really fun getting to hang out together in a cozy cabin while it was snowing outside. Even the road trip up was so much fun!

What would you be doing in an alternate universe?

An author! I love reading and writing in my spare time. I like to think I would have made it as a creative~