Nonfiction writer, foodie, runner, Jazz singer, bassoonist, landscape architecture co. co-owner, speaker of Japanese, brewer, & mom of teen STEAM-girl.
"When I was a professor of pathology at UC San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (in the 70s).
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"I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from different animal sources.