I'm a person who's always been motivated by science and exploring the world around me. I think the the combination of science and exploration began for me when I was about 10 years old and my father gave me a microscope and I proceeded to go out and try to catalog all the microorganisms that I could find uh with the dream that I would [clears throat] discover something that nobody else had ever seen. This dream of discovery has stuck with me for my entire life.[clears throat] When I entered college, I was v ...