Bio
Liam Holt completed his Ph. D. at UCSF in 2009, was a Bowes Fellow at UC Berkeley, and is currently Associate Professor of Biochemistry at New York University. His lab studies how mechanical compression affects cells, and how the physical properties of the cell interior affect biochemistry in both normal biology and disease. He is passionate about outreach and community: he co-founded Science Sketches (www.sciencesketches.org), a crowd-sourced project to create an online dictionary of science videos; and Inspire Science (www.inspiresci.org), a symposium about maintaining happiness in a challenging career.