My name is Kristin, and I’m NerdyOne.
I’m behind all the blog posts here at Try Nerdy. The funny thing is, before I started this blog, I wouldn’t have considered myself nerdy…despite what I’ve been up to these past few years:
I got my Bachelor’s in biology from MIT in June of 2010, then went right into a biology PhD program at Harvard two months later. So I’m currently a PhD candidate and will continue to be one for the foreseeable future…
I guess I realized I was nerdy when I started to get excited about my thesis project and found out that it was hard to talk about it with anyone outside of science…and then I realized science is often hard to talk about with anyone outside of science. There’s a global scarcity of nerdiness. That’s a problem I hope to fix.
For the record, I study melanoma using zebrafish as a model organism:
One of my zebrafish, with a melanoma on his back.
My favorite color is green. And I have two amazing kitties:
Left: My sweet little boy, Jackson. Right: His sassy lovebug sister, Jordan
When I’m not trying to cure cancer or write for this site, I’m reading any fiction I can get my hands on.
So that’s me. It means the world to me that you’ve checked out my site — thank you. And if you leave the site a little nerdier, I’ve done my good deed for the day. 
You can always reach me using the Contact Us page.
Hi Kristin,Its really a nice experience to read your blog.You are following a great career in science industry.
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Hi Kristin, being a nerd is a great thing. It means you are special and that you will make a big difference in in this world for your “nerdyness”. Just keep going and don’t stop at all.
Sailfin mollies (Xiphophorus) are a great model for melanoma. They have a temperature sensitive allele of a proto-oncogene that leads to them dying of melanoma.
Nice to see AA women in science!