I’m a recent M.S. graduate from George Mason University, microbial ecologist, and data enthusiast. I’m currently an ORISE Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, formerly a research assistant with the U.S. Geological Survey.

A newly discovered cryosphere-dwelling yeast stays alive by making ethanol

Rhodotorula frigidialcoholis was isolated from 150,000-year-old permafrost in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica