Excited to announce that I successfully defended my Ph.D research!

After this week I am proud to reclaim my title as "Best Auston from California"

The sea anemone Edwardsia elegans, top down view in sand

Edwardsia elegans with a nice tentacles swirl

Talking about cnidarian epigenetics at #SICB2026 at 1:45 in room 202!

The first one is "use AI" and another is literally "don't grab hot stuff" 😬

De novo genome assembly of the Edwardsiid anthozoan Edwardsia elegans Abstract. Cnidarians (sea anemones, corals, hydroids, and jellyfish) are a key outgroup for comparisons with bilateral animals to trace the evolution of ge

A little late but my first research article was published in #G3.....six months ago! We assembled the first genome for the anemone Edwardaia elegans and found some cool stuff! Big thanks to my coauthors, couldn't have done it without them.
academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

Got to talk about my dissertation research on Steph Curry....I mean methylation