Connect Wherever Possible
17 July 2025
People often ask me what I like most about being a professor. While there are many rewarding aspects of being a PI, such as directing your own research program and training the next generation of scientists, I find travel to be the most enjoyable. This hasn't always been the case. As a young adult, I dreaded travel and used to count...
Discover Your Research Identity
01 May 2025
Who am I at this moment? Figuring out my research identity
The search for identity is the ongoing struggle to arrest or slow down the flow, to solidify the fluid, to give form to the formless.
– Zygmunt Bauman (2000)
Our research identity is about how we see ourselves, and how others see us. As we go through university and...
Alternative Careers Beyond Academic Science
14 March 2025
To science or not to science? Research in academia is difficult and challenging, but it is also extremely rewarding. We explore the depths of biology to discover something new and exciting. We dream of bringing new concepts to textbooks, or to discover a cure for a disease that impacts us and the people we love. We are constantly learning new...