MD/PhD student in the Overbaugh lab at @fredhutch @MCBSeattle @UW_MSTP she/her
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27 May 2023
An amazing body of work!
26 May 2023
Hot off the press, we have a new paper out @CellReports!!
Interested in HIV restriction factors? Strategies for CRISPR-KO screens in primary cells? Interferon-stimulated genes?? Check out our paper and follow along as I walk through the highlights here!
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4 Apr 2022
I refuse to defend my thesis. It's never going to make it in this world if it doesn't learn to fight for itself
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11 Mar 2022
When you combine misogyny with absolute ignorance of human reproduction, this is what you get.
Make no mistake, women will die because of this.
Blood on the hands of Missouri politicians.
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4 Mar 2022
Which do you use for whole-plasmid sequencing: plasmidsaurus? primordium? Something else?
What has your experience been?
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27 Jan 2022
Holy..!
26 Jan 2022
Another day, another 132,000 novel RNA viruses discovered. disq.us/t/44ok6zt
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15 Jan 2022
Do not go out to the beaches to look at tsunami waves. Dangerous wave and strong currents are expected. Stay out of the water and move well away from shore. #wawx
15 Jan 2022
8:30 AM Tsunami Advisory update - Leading tsunami waves are likely to begin approaching the Washington coast shortly.
Estimated arrival of leading waves
La Push: 845 am
Neah Bay: 850 am
Westport: 850 am
Moclips: 855 am
Port Angeles: 930 am
Port Townsend: 955 am
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13 Jan 2022
useful instructions for collecting a throat swab using a rapid test. If it doesn’t gross you out too much, do throat and then nose with the same swab! ⬇️
1 Dec 2021
Does anyone want to exchange Spotify 2021 Wrapped playlists (your top songs of this year)? 👉👈 Mine is pretty good… but I might be a little biased
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23 Oct 2021
Wow - a super enlightening history of public health in America. Worth a read!
23 Oct 2021
🚨I wrote about public health’s history; why it spent the 20thC moving away from broad coalitions, political advocacy, and a crusading spirit that actively pushed for social reforms; and why it must regain those things to be relevant and effective. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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11 Oct 2021
Thread: A slow weekend turned interesting when a student at Columbia, in response to a tweet suggesting the SAT and ACT were "good, actually" posted this chart.
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30 Sep 2021
Currently on LOA from med school to care for my mom with metastatic cancer. Looking for part-time, remote work. Experienced in admin/writing/research. Family has no income rn so would really love any leads - open to short term projects. Please help amplify if able 🙏🏼#MedTwitter
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4 Aug 2021
re: "your child is more likely to die from being hit by a car than of covid-19"
This is a very instructive comparison, not for what it tells us about covid, but for what it tells us about road traffic collisions. 1/
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22 Jun 2021
In a new study, I identify and recover a deleted set of #SARSCoV2 sequences that provide additional information about viruses from the early Wuhan outbreak: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… (1/n)
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22 Jun 2021
Paper out today from my time as a post-bac in Dr. Carole Long's lab at NIH! It's a dense read so a little tl;dr here...
RH5 is a protein used by P. falciparum parasites to invade red blood cells, and is a promising candidate for a malaria vaccine.
cell.com/cell-reports-medici…
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22 Jun 2021
Results from the in vitro assay we used (a parasite growth inhibition assay, or GIA; analogous to a virus neutralization assay) have been shown to correlate with protection in NHP and human challenge models.
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22 Jun 2021
This gives faith that GIA can be used as a surrogate for immune interactions in vivo. There are some other very cool findings in this paper too but I'll stop here... Super grateful to my mentors at NIH for the opportunity and endless guidance 😊 Thanks for reading!