Profile

• Time Zone

  Eastern

  
  
• Organization

  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

  
  
• Role

  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
• Research Interests (300 words)

  I did my graduate work on bacterial motility. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher studying antimicrobial resistance. Outside of this, I am broadly interested in biology and ecology.

  
  
• Profile Question 1

  What is best about being a scientist?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):

  The best thing about being a scientist is that life behaves in unexpected ways. There are so many unexplored questions and nature is so smart - living things adapt and evolve leading and incredible amount of biodiversity.

  
  
• Profile Question 2

  What is tough about being a scientist?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 2 here (300 words):

  One of the most frustrating things about being a scientist is that experiments often don't work the first time, or the second or the third. Research involves a lot of patience and trial and error and at the end of the day, you may feel like you have wasted all of your time. The rewards come later after a lot of perseverance.

  
  
• Profile Question 3

  What is your favorite plant? Why?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 3 here (300 words):

  I love herbs because somehow I seem to be able to grow them.

  
  
• Help represent the outreach efforts of your societies. Please click all those organizations you are a member of:

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• Availability

  I am NOT available, please temporarily remove me from the available mentor list

  
  
• In addition to English, I am comfortable communicating with students in the following languages:

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• Capacity: How many teams at a time are you comfortable working with?

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