Awards & Recognition
★2016 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering ($875,000 over 5 years)
★2017 Pew Biomedical Scholar
★2018 NIH Director's New Innovator Award
★2010 Bauer Fellowship at Harvard University
★ASM Raymond Sarber Award for thesis research
Notable Facts
→Called the 'go-to microbiologist' for chefs and gastronomists by The New York Times
→Has 21,441+ citations according to Google Scholar
→Currently Science Resident at Astera Institute, formerly Professor at UC San Diego
→Pioneer in using cheese as model system for studying microbial communities
→Collaborated with renowned chefs including David Chang at Momofuku
→Featured in major Netflix and PBS documentaries
→Wikipedia page documenting her career and achievements