Dolly's Generous Legacy: Do Rich Women Give More Than Rich Men?
Aug 29, 2026
Dolly Parton gave away about as much money as she kept. Her death sent me to the data: do the world's richest women give more than the richest men?
My Work
Baguette Bio
2025
Computational biology consulting, specializing in metagenomics and multi-omics integration.
Singular Genomics
2024
Developing novel sequencing technologies and applications.
Metabiomics
2020
Microbiome analysis and research services.
Kaleido
2019
Microbiome therapeutics through ecosystem management and omics analysis.
PhD Dissertation
2018
Research on neonatal intensive care unit microbiomes.
ML Identifies Infant Rooms
2018
Research on microbial transmission in NICU rooms using machine learning and metagenomics.
We Found The Strains
2017
Research on microbial strain transmission from hospital surfaces to infants and environmental adaptation.
ISME Poster
2016
Research presentation on microbial ecology at the 16th International Society for Microbial Ecology Congress.
IHMC Poster
2015
Research presentation on NICU microbial transmission at the International Human Microbiome Congress 2015.
Proteomics of Preemies
2015
Research on microbial metabolism in premature infants using metaproteomics, revealing insights into oxygen presence and strain-level competition.
Necrotizing Enterocolitis
2015
Research on microbial strain sharing in premature infants with necrotizing enterocolitis, revealing unexpected diversity in microbial colonization patterns.
Preemies in a NICU
2014
Pilot study on microbial transmission in NICU environments and its impact on preterm infant microbiomes, revealing room-infant microbial relationships.
MSG Spring Symposium
2013
Head organizer of the Microbiology Student Group Spring Symposium at UC Berkeley, coordinating speakers and managing logistics for this annual research event.
Preemies in a NICU
2013
Final research poster presenting findings from our pilot study on microbial transmission between NICU environments and preterm infant microbiomes.
Extraction Kit Comparison
2011
Graduate rotation project comparing DNA extraction kits for Crohn's disease cohort studies. Presented at BAGECO 2011; see poster for details.
Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore Meet Louis Pasteur
2009
Interdisciplinary art-science project fusing microbiology with Renaissance art, featuring a bacterial recreation of The Creation of Adam.
MICROBES TAN NAKED 2008
2008
Research poster presented at the 2008 Wentz Spring Research Symposium: The Effects of Tanning Beds on the Normal Microbial Floral of the Human Skin by B. Brooks.
Recent Writing
Single-Cell Is About to Have Its Placenta Microbiome Moment
Aug 17, 2026
Microbial ecology spent twenty years learning that in low-biomass samples, the thing you measure is partly your reagents. Single-cell has the same exposure, most of the same tooling gaps, and none of the same scar tissue — and the field is moving into exactly the regime where it starts to matter.
Journal Safari: Seven Million Parameters and a MacBook Air
Aug 5, 2026
Journal Safari #3. Pan-human Azimuth puts 27 million cells from 23 tissues on one annotation tree, then classifies them with a model 70× smaller than the foundation model I read in July — and wins. The contribution is not the model. It is the labels.