Creating liquid overnight cultures of mc²155 and Jucho cells for later use. Cells are kind of like humans. If they recognize each other as family, they’re not going to exchange DNA. If they aren’t family, they will exchange DNA. That’s probably not something you want to think about, but it’s exactly how Mycobacteria, on a baseline level, choose to interact with one another. Let me back up. If you’ve been reading my blog posts, you know that I worked for six weeks in the Gra

Salmonella typhi—the same disease millions of people in India contract every year—was exotic enough in New York to significantly lengthen my time in the hospital and slow my care down. In previous blog posts, I’ve detailed how my questions following this experience led me to pursue an independent research project and reach out to the Wadsworth Department of Health lab, where I recently finished interning at. It also made me curious about the history of global health and the b

I know what it’s like to be lying in a hospital bed with a terrible bacterial infection contracted in India, waiting anxiously for a medical professional to figure out why this escalated so badly. Waiting to be diagnosed, waiting to be given medication, waiting to be fixed. Now I know what it’s like to be on the other side of that wait. What it’s like to work in a lab dedicated to public health research aimed at fast traveling global diseases, especially those increasingly re