A decade ago my benchmate Lina Leon and I were studying viruses and CRISPR together in grad school. Now Lina’s building immune assays at @dittobio.bsky.social to test our therapeutics proteins! Maybe the real PhD is the friends you make along the way [photo cred @jbdsf.bsky.social , 2016]

Finally got around to writing up some of our progress at @dittobio.bsky.social ! Check out our inaugural blog post to learn how my favorite parasites (aka viruses 😎) can improve target selection and help discover blockbuster drug mechanisms for autoimmune disease: www.dittobio.com/blog/2025-03...

The best immunologists on Earth don't have PhDs. They're parasites. Today's spotlight 🧵(and big inspo for @ dittobio): ticks! And if you like this, stay tuned because we will be sharing cool parasite facts each week #TickTalk

🚀 So awesome to get to build together 🧬

Some news: excited to share that I'm building @dittobio.bsky.social with @adairb.bsky.social and Emily Weiss as part of the @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy W26 batch! We're discovering drugs for autoimmune disease by harnessing parasite biology. www.ycombinator.com/launches/PNb...