Writing

Writing is one way I get to engage with the topics I care most about. In addition to my academic publishing in immunology and public health, I take interest in a wide variety of topics related to health, equity, nutrition, exercise physiology, climate and the natural world.

Featured

How Poverty Affects Diet to Shape the Microbiota and Chronic Disease

Nature Reviews Immunology – November 2017

Disappearance of the Human Microbiota: How We May Be Losing Our Oldest Allies

American Society for Microbiology – November 8, 2019

Career Development Grant for Postdoctoral Women

American Society for Microbiology – June 2019

Web Articles

From Sanguine to Hypersaline: Global Salt Lakes in Decline
American Society for Microbiology //
April 21, 2023

Metro Microbes: Microbiomes of Public Transit & Urban Spaces
American Society for Microbiology // September 19, 2022

Microbiology of Endurance: The Microbiome’s Role in Fitness
American Society for Microbiology // March 4, 2022

What Makes a Microbiome Healthy?
American Society for Microbiology //
August 9, 2021

Broadening the Microbiome: Fungi in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)
American Society for Microbiology // July 14, 2021

Unearthing the Soil Microbiome, Climate Change, Carbon Storage Nexus
American Society for Microbiology // May 14, 2021

Microbes on the Mind: A Complex Role in Neurodegeneration
American Society for Microbiology // January 26, 2021

Conquering Latent HIV to End the AIDS Pandemic
American Society for Microbiology // November 30, 2020

Bee Alert: The Microscopic and Macroscopic Perils for Bees
American Society for Microbiology // August 7, 2020

The Biology and Immunology of COVID-19 Susceptibility
American Society for Microbiology // June 5, 2020

Of Microbes and Mental Health: Eating for Mental Wellness
American Society for Microbiology // February 14, 2020

Disappearance of the Human Microbiota: How We May Be Losing Our Oldest Allies
American Society for Microbiology // November 8, 2019