I study how cells build the machinery of division.
I'm a Princeton molecular biology PhD candidate bridging spindle biology, biochemistry, and structural research with a growing interest in computational drug discovery, biotech and healthcare investing, and entrepreneurship.
I'm currently studying the molecular choreography of cell division — how the spindle, the structure that segregates chromosomes, is built from its individual protein parts.
My work rebuilds these systems from purified components and watches them assemble in real time under TIRF microscopy — using in vitro reconstitution to turn molecular events into something I can observe directly.
Watching molecules behave in real time is what drew me to this work, and it's what keeps me at the bench.
How the bipolar spindle is built from branching microtubule nucleation and the molecular motor proteins that organize them — the central question driving my doctoral work.
How phase-separating proteins tune the activity of molecular motors and shape microtubule dynamics for cell division.
TIRF microscopy and biochemical assays that reconstitute biological spindle components from purified proteins, making remarkable molecular events directly observable.
A focused set of interactive molecular biology tools for lecture and lab — central dogma flow, codon translation, micropipette viewers, dilution calculators, primer/PCR design, and more. Designed and built solo with AI-assisted coding.
Open the live toolkit →My approach to teaching and mentoring rests on a simple idea: growth lives on the far side of discomfort. The moments that feel hardest — the experiment that won't work, the concept that won't click, the question you're afraid to ask — are exactly where the deepest learning happens.
So I try to help students get comfortable being uncomfortable: to treat confusion as a signal of progress rather than failure, and to build the resilience to keep pushing when the answer isn't obvious. That's how I learned at the bench, and it's what I try to pass on.
I've put this into practice mentoring high-school students, undergraduates, and graduate students in protein purification and biochemical methods, and I carry the same approach into the classroom and beyond.