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I am currently a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT physics department with additional support from an NIH K99 Pathways to Independence Award. For the past two years I have been working in the group of Alexander van Oudenaarden studying the evolution of cooperation using yeast sucrose metabolism as a model experimental system.

I graduated in December 2005 with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. My research was in experimental single-molecule biophysics in the laboratory of Professor Carlos Bustamante (mostly in collaboration with the Cozzarelli lab). My primary research has been in the study of twist and torque in single DNA molecules. In particular, I have studied DNA twist mechanics and the mechanochemical cycle of DNA gyrase. I have also done some theory in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and molecular motors. To learn more please go to my research page.

Before starting my postdoc I did a three-month science policy fellowship at the National Academy of Sciences studying science education at the undergraduate level with the Board on Science Education.

I also enjoy hiking, tennis, volleyball, economics, politics, and reading. If you are looking for a good book to read (especially non-fiction), check out my books page.

Organizations that I am affiliated with or support:

van Oudenaarden Lab at MIT

Pappalardo Fellowship Program

Bustamante Lab at Berkeley

Cozzarelli Lab

Hertz Foundation

Freedom House

Citizens for Retiring the Penny

Brookings Institution