I have experience writing for academic research audiences as well as general audiences. My favorite topics include “surprising” science (like microbes you can see with the naked eye), science and society connections (like finding Star Wars in microbiology), citizen science, and anything microbiology related.
National Geographic
Arts and Cultures – March 2020 (print)
This Gorgeous Art Was Made With a Surprising Substance: Live Bacteria – 2019
Genetics Society of America
How a Lab Studying Down Syndrome Created an Important Resource for COVID-19 research – 2020
Nature Careers
Rent or Conference — Early-career Researchers Shouldn’t Have to Choose – 2019
Massive Science
How Safe Is the DNA in Your Poop From Unwanted Snooping? – 2020
Do Animals Hear Music? “the Evolving Animal Orchestra” Follows a Decade on the Beat – 2019
That Refreshing Ocean Mist is Full of Microbes – 2018
Should You Let Your Dog Lick Your Face? – 2018
Three Times Louise Slaughter Used Her Microbiology Training in Congress – 2018
Don’t Fear Germs – At Least Not Too Much – 2018
- Honorable mention, Best Shortform Science Writing: January-March 2018
How Paper Towels Could Revolutionize DNA Analysis – 2018
Marine Biological Laboratory
Making “Lemonade”: Chance Observation Leads to Insight on Microbial Bloom Formation – 2020
The Cuttlefish May be Flashy, but its Microbiome is Super Simple, Team Reports – 2019
Mobile DNA Element Found in Mosquito Parasite Has Potential for Infectious Disease Control – 2019
New Sequencing Approach Offers Insight on Microbiomes in Changing Environments – 2019
How Curious is That Octopus? MBL Project Documents Lives, Behaviors of Cephalopods – 2017
Woods Hole Sleuthing Leads to Unusual Bacterium – and Propels a Career in Science – 2017
Picturing the Invisible: Where Photography and Microscopy Meet -2017
How Can a Slime Mold Solve a Maze? The Physiology Course is Finding Out – 2017
Watching a Butterfly Wing Get its Color: An Unexpected Discovery in MBL Embryology – 2017
Living Life at the Extremes: How the Water Bear Survives Without Water -2017
The Sex Life of Snails: Whitman Scientist Traces the Germline of a Hermaphrodite – 2017
Bringing Cephalopod Culture to New Heights at the MBL – 2017
American Society for Microbiology
How Microbes Clean up Oil: Lessons From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – 2020
Identifying Bacteria Through Look, Growth, Stain, and Strain – 2020
The One Health of Animals, Humans, and Our Planet: It’s All Microbially Connected – 2019
Changing CO2 Levels Require Microbial Coping Strategies – 2019
- Published in Microcosm Magazine
Snow Is Coming – What’s That Have to Do with Microbes? – 2019
Does a Minimal Genome Exist? – 2018
Yeast Through the Years: From Hidden Fermenters to Synthetic Biology – 2018
The Origin of Eukaryotes: Where Science and Pop Culture Collide – 2018
Return of the Phages – A Forgotten Remedy Makes a Comeback – 2018
Zombie Ants: Microbial Mind-Control Deep Within the Rainforest – 2017
The Leaf-Cutter Ant’s 50 Million Years of Farming – 2017
Paintings are a Canvas for Microbial Life – 2017
Out of Sight, but Not out of Mind: The Microbial World of Caves – 2017
Staying Safe in Space – 2017
Addgene
Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing – 2019
Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation – 2018
Other
Lateral Magazine – Zapping Our Fears – 2018
Science Trends – We Need New Antibiotics, But Why Aren’t They Being Made? – 2017
Lateral Magazine – How Luciferin Brought Living Light to Folklore and Science – 2017
Tiny Science Letter – Resistance – 2017
Signal to Noise – Microbial Art Brings Microscopic Life into View – 2016
In the media
eLife – Interview: Blogging and Being Social – 2019
Real Scientists – There’s More to Micro Life: Thanks and Farewell – 2017
SciParty – Antimicrobial Resistance – 2017
Real Scientists – Bacterial Battles: Microbes and Antibiotic Resistance with Jennifer Tsang – 2017
Research commentary
Journal of Postdoctoral Research – How Next Generation Sequencing has Transformed Microbial Ecology – 2016
Journal of Postdoctoral Research – Shrinking the Bacterial Genome – 2016
Journal of Postdoctoral Research – Horizontal Gene Transfer as a Global Mediator of Antimicrobial Resistance – 2016
Research papers
Molecular Microbiology – Helicobacter pylori strains vary cell shape and flagellum number to maintain robust motility in viscous environments – 2016
Journal of Bacteriology – Basal body structures differentially affect transcription of RpoN- and RliA-dependent flagellar genes in Helicobacter pylori – 2015
Journal of Bacteriology – Helicobacter pylori FlhA binds the sensor kinase and flagellar gene regulatory protein FlgS with high affinity – 2015
Journal of Bacteriology – Requirement of the flagellar protein export apparatus component FliO for optimal expression of flagellar genes in Helicobacter pylori – 2015
Microbiology – Insertion mutations in Helicobacter pylori flhA reveal strain differences in RpoN-dependent gene expression – 2013
Microbial Informatics and Experimentation – The zinc-ribbon domain of Helicobacter pylori HP0958: requirement for RpoN accumulation and possible roles of homologs in other bacteria – 2011
Research reviews
Scientifica – Themes and variations: regulation of RpoN-dependent flagellar genes across diverse bacterial species – 2014