As the result of a nature writing class during my senior year at Washington University in St. Louis, I have come to realize how much I like learning and writing about very eclectic topics. In this blog, I plan to write about whatever happens to spark my interest at the time (including, but certainly not limited to, my childhood/life-long obsessions: space, dinosaurs, and fish). I am currently a PhD student in the Chemical and Systems Biology program at Stanford University.