Currently a graduate fellow at Rockefeller University studying metagenomics, nautral products, and bit of other random stuff. Utilizing novel techniques to find new classes of antibiotics, chemotherapeutics and other small molecules from uncultured bacteria. This can essentially be pared down to playing with mud (literally) and sifting through lots of bug DNA for interesting pieces that generate cool biologically inspired chemistry.

My next stint is more focused on traditional synthetic biology (one bug at a time...not 10^30), biofuels, and biosynthetic chemistry. I'll be headed out west to do some work with a really inspirational group of people in March. I ultimately would like to utilize synthetic biology to both study chemistry and to address some healthcare issues of the world (i.e. drug costs, microbial pathogenesis, vaccines).

Otherwise, I'm working on some mixtures of guitar, cello, max/msp using teleo/arduino/interactive interfaces. The latest installation/sculpture was a monome running Conway's Game of Life to trigger sections of a cello piece I wrote along with the requisite glitchy Max/Msp generative bits. Had a brief stint dj'ing a weekly drum and bass party in the east village but I can't hack the sleep deprivation anymore...although it was pretty hilarious and fun (may start that up again with Brad)