Research

My path has moved from behavior toward immunity. In high school I studied how sleep shapes food choice in fruit flies. In college I worked across behavior, genetics and parasite biology — butterflies in Singapore, worms at Scripps, and the parasite Trypanosoma brucei at Harvey Mudd and Johns Hopkins — and then brought immunology into an aging lab for my senior thesis. Along the way one question kept pulling me in: how hosts and pathogens shape each other, especially in infections that weigh most on underserved communities. That question brought me to malaria and NK cells at Stanford.