• The unifying thread of my
  interdisicplinary background is
  analyzing data to craft stories that tell
  us something about the world. Most
  recently, this has been evaluating and
  communicating results of three
  spectacular programs at the NIH
  including the Transformational
  CryoEM program and the Molecular
  Transducers of Physical Activity
  Consortium (MoTrPAC).

Here are some of my public work products:

• Housing Instability Linked to Cognitive
  Decline in Older Adults

• CryoET Technology Explores
  Connections in the Brain

Biophysics and
Bioinformatics

Here are some of my public work products:

• The three-sided right-handed β-helix is a
  versatile fold for glycan interactions,

• Analysis of insertions and extensions in
  the functional evolution of the
  ribonucleotide reductase family

Science
Communication

Here are some of my public work products:

• On the responsibility of scientists as
  stewards of public knowledge

• Wired for Clean Energy: How unique
  bacteria make electricity-conducting
  wires

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• Diribonuclease activity eliminates toxic diribonucleotide accumulation. Cell Rep 43, 114759 (2024).
  doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114759

• Conformational landscapes of a Class I ribonucleotide reductase complex during turnover reveal intrinsic dynamics and
  asymmetry. bioRxiv (2024). doi:10.1101/2024.06.16.599213

• The three-sided right-handed β-helix is a versatile fold for glycan interactions. Glycobiology 34 (2024).
  doi:10.1093/glycob/cwae037

• Conformational switching and flexibility in cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase studied by small-angle X-ray
  scattering and cryo-electron microscopy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 120, 2302531120 (2023).
  doi:10.1073/pnas.2302531120

• Analysis of insertions and extensions in the functional evolution of the ribonucleotide reductase family. Protein Sci. 31
  (2022). doi:10.1002/pro.4483

• Comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the ribonucleotide reductase family reveals an ancestral clade and the role of
  insertions and extensions in diversification. eLife (2022). doi:10.7554/eLife.79790

• Convergent allostery in ribonucleotide reductase. Nat. Commun. 10, 1 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10568-4

“Housing Instability Linked to Cognitive Decline
in Older Adults” - The Common Fund

“CryoET Technology Explores Connections in the
Brain” - The Common Fund

“FIRST Awardees Convene to Advance Scientific
Excellence” - The Common Fund

“CryoEM structures unravel a molecular mystery
of hepatitis B infection” - The Common Fund

“On the responsibility of scientists as stewards of
public knowledge”- Science Policy For All

“Science Policy Around the Web December
18th, 2023” - Science Policy For All

“Probiotic Progress for Coral’s Impending
Climate Disaster” Microbites

“Ando wins award for contributions to
biochemistry and molecular biology” - Cornell
Chronicle

“Wired for Clean Energy: How unique bacteria
make electricity-conducting wires” - Microbites

“How carbohydrates function to help or hurt
humans” - Cornell Chronicle

“An enzyme family tree” - eLife Magazine Digest

An editorial for my first,
first-author paper

• I helped contribute to this digest, which was
  one of my first “serious” communications for a
  public audience. I made this figure with our
  own protein models and the latest publically
  available deep learning model!

A major work in my
postdoc

• We analyzed every protein in the protein data
  bank for its ability to bind glycans (also known
  as carbohydrates). This was a really fun
  project that will help guide protein-glycan
  studies. I am particularly proud of the figures
  in this work!

A major result of my
dissertation

• We collected and curated the largest dataset
  of ribonucleotide reductase sequences (at
  time of publication) to understand how these
  enzymes evolved. With bioinformatics and
  structural analysis methods, we explored a
  new subgroup that hadn't been studied
  before.

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• Protein purificiation, ligand binding analysis

• Molecular dynamics, phylogenetic inference

• Generating and maintaining SOPs

• Techincal and non-technical communication

• Social media

• Data visualization

• Data for decision making

• Impact analysis

• Data informed stategy

• Project management

• Strategic planning

• Coordination

• R, Python, Matlab, Jupyter, git/GitHub

• Microsoft suite, Adobe suite, Canva

• HPC Linux environments, Globus