My name is Nate.  This is where I would list the achievements that qualify me to be your sherpa on this expedition.  My ivy-league pedigree, my prestigious publication history and my high-impact biotech job.  

I have none of these things.

I am a newly laid-off, current full time dad that has finally had the chance to confront the things in his career that he has always wanted to do but never had the chance to do.  

My obsession with science fuels my desire to share it.  

A dream of mine is to teach an upper-division interdisciplinary course on introductory biology.  A class of non-scientists that were curious about biology but had no idea where to start.  This course would start with the basics, the central dogma of molecular biology.  With this foundation, we would spend a session holding an open forum and make a custom curriculum based on what they wanted to know.  You can only imagine the types of questions you would get.

What is cancer?

If I am 60% identical to a banana, what does DNA even do?  

What is the COVID vaccine, my mom says it’s bad?

Why am I so hung over right now?

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