Assistant Director of Research Communications and Media & Assistant Professor
UNC-Chapel Hill
Communications & Media Experience
Drug Discovery News, Senior Science Editor and Team Lead: Jan 2024 – Sept. 2024 (See here for select writings and projects)
Drug Discovery News, Associate Science Editor and Team Lead: Oct. 2020 – Dec. 2023
The Scientist, Assistant Science Editor: Mar. 2020 – Nov. 2021
Freelance Science Writer/Communicator, Various Outlets: Aug. 2017 – Mar. 2020
The Lasker Foundation, Science Writer and Social Media Consultant: Sept. 2018 – May 2019
Science Journalism Intern, BioTechniques: Aug. 2017 – Mar. 2018
Scientific Education and Training
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Aug. 2017 – Mar. 2020
PhD, Genetics, North Carolina State University: Aug. 2010 – Jan. 2017
BA, Biology, University of the Virgin Islands: Aug. 2006 – May 2010
Scientific Peer-Reviewed Publications
, Circulation – Jan 15, 2024
Single cell dual-omics reveals the transcriptomic and epigenomic diversity of cardiac non-myocytes, Cardiovascular Research – April 2021
, EMBO reports – Sep 2021
Down-regulation of Beclin1 promotes direct cardiac reprogramming, Science Translational Medicine – Oct. 2020
Derivation of stable embryonic stem cell-like, but transcriptionally heterogenous, induced pluripotent stem cells from non-permissive mouse strains, Mammalian Genome – Oct. 2020
Chapter 13 – Heart regeneration using somatic cells: Emerging Technologies for Heart Disease, Academic Press – Aug. 2020
An Optimized Protocol for Human Direct Cardiac Reprogramming, STAR Protocols – Jun 2020
Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analyses of Cell Fate Transitions during Human Cardiac Reprogramming, Cell Stem Cell – Jul 2019
Permissiveness to form pluripotent stem cells may be an evolutionarily derived characteristic in Mus musculus, Scientific Reports – Oct. 2018
