Recently said goodbye to a home away from home after almost a decade (in exchange for a title only in writing). Now moving onto greener pastures!

HHMI made the decision to discontinue the Hanna Gray Fellows program (indefinitely, presumably).

There is, of course, something to be said about the volatile nature of academia (re: funding) in the US, but the flipside is that this is actively pushing away international scholars. 1/

I survived my defense (the snake was of substantial size)!

Huge thanks to my advisor Bonnie (@bergerlab.bsky.social), committee members Rayan (@rayanchikhi.bsky.social) at Pasteur and Srini and Ronitt from MIT, and friends and colleagues who attended.

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