The Biorisk Management Casebook: Insights into contemporary practices
Synthesizes themes from case studies and interviews with life science organizations about their biosafety and biosecurity practices.
Selected publications
Published findings and perspectives
Summaries of selected reports, policy briefs, and peer-reviewed articles.
Policy & Governance
Beyond Biosecurity by Taxonomic Lists: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities
Proposes updates to biosecurity governance to reflect advances in biotechnology.
Rethinking Immigration Policy for the Future of the American STEM Workforce
Evaluates policy options to retain U.S.-educated international STEM graduates in the American workforce.
Building a Robust Bioeconomy Workforce: A Policy Approach to Bridging the Gap in Undergraduate Experiential Learning
Advocates for more “learning by doing” in four-year degree programs.
Experimental Research
An E. coli display method for characterization of peptide-sensor kinase interactions
Introduces a method to study how bacteria sense peptides and uses this method to uncover interactions between Salmonella and peptides produced by the human immune system.
Rewiring bacterial two-component systems by modular DNA binding domain swapping
Develops a new approach to engineering bacterial sensing systems and demonstrates applications including discovery of a pH sensor (my contribution).