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My scientific career has explored the intersections of mathematical modeling, molecular biology, and computational data science. I received my BA in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard in 1996, followed by a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at MIT in 2001, where I studied protein folding, DNA biophysics, and the statistical mechanics of polymer gels with Toyoichi Tanaka, Alexander Grosberg, and Mehran Kardar. I worked as a postdoc at UC San Francisco with [http://mobydick.ucsf.edu/ Prof. Hao Li] in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department, where I moved into computational biology and studied the molecular evolution of gene regulatory processes. From 2005-2012 I was an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Boston College. I joined the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine as an Associate Professor in Fall 2012, where my major interests have been cancer genomics, intratumoral evolution, and RNA-level gene regulation. I have a longtime interest in science communication and education, developed out my work as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow during graduate school.
My scientific career has been a steady progression from my long time interests in both mathematics and modeling towards studying biological systems. My first serious research projects were as a physics major at Harvard. There I worked on a variety of topics in condensed matter physics and mathematical modeling, including experiments in high and low temperature superconductivity, simulations of antimatter in an ion trap, and theory work on the quantum chaotic properties of atomic nuclear states.
 
 
 
 
 
Afterwards, I went to [http://web.mit.edu/ MIT] to get a Ph.D. in [http://web.mit.edu/physics/ theoretical physics], studying topics such as protein folding, DNA, and the remarkable thermodynamic properties of polymer gels with Toyoichi Tanaka, Alexander Grosberg, and Mehran Kardar. I spent one summer doing science journalism at the [http://www.dallasnews.com/ Dallas Morning News].
 
 
 
 
 
From 2001-2005, I worked as a postdoc at [https://www.ucsf.edu/ UC San Francisco] with [http://mobydick.ucsf.edu/ Prof. Hao Li] in the [http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/ Biochemistry and Biophysics Department]. From 2005-2012 I was an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Boston College. I joined the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine as an associate professor in Fall 2012.
 

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My scientific career has explored the intersections of mathematical modeling, molecular biology, and computational data science. I received my BA in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard in 1996, followed by a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at MIT in 2001, where I studied protein folding, DNA biophysics, and the statistical mechanics of polymer gels with Toyoichi Tanaka, Alexander Grosberg, and Mehran Kardar. I worked as a postdoc at UC San Francisco with Prof. Hao Li in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department, where I moved into computational biology and studied the molecular evolution of gene regulatory processes. From 2005-2012 I was an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Boston College. I joined the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine as an Associate Professor in Fall 2012, where my major interests have been cancer genomics, intratumoral evolution, and RNA-level gene regulation. I have a longtime interest in science communication and education, developed out my work as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow during graduate school.