Now
I am an incoming PhD student at Harvard University in the Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology Program (SSQB), and a Herchel Smith Graduate Fellow. I am broadly interested in how biological form and function arise from the interactions between seemingly random processes.
Here is a Curriculum Vitae.
Previously
In past lives, I was an undergraduate fellow with Drs. Kayla King and Brett Finlay at UBC, where I researched bacterial morphogenesis and developed methods to engineer undomesticated bacteria. I then moved to UCSF as a postgraduate researcher with Drs. Fred Chang and John Vaughen, studying the physical properties of the cytoplasm in single cells and multicellular tissues. Along the way, this work took me to some unexpected places: weighing single cells at MIT with Dr. Teemu Miettinen, examining cytoplasmic organization in fly gut cells with Dr. Lucy O'Brien's lab at Stanford, and playing around with fancy microscopes at the MBL at Woods Hole.
Outside of Science
I love hiking and have been getting into rock climbing. I am also an avid music listener and especially love indie rock and west coast hip hop. Here is some music I have been listening to.
Links
Email: jcforward01 at gmail dot com