As a graduate student, Anita Sil worked on the yeast S. cerevisiae. When she started her own lab, however, she switched to studying the soil fungus and human pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum. Sil is now an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist. Learn more at http://histo.ucsf.edu/sillab/index.htm
Talks with this Speaker
Taekwondo in Graduate School: The Way of the Hand, Foot, Heart, and Mind
During graduate school, Anita Sil combined science and taekwondo, as she started taekwondo as a new way to get a good workout. Sil believes that many of the lessons of taekwondo also apply to science. (Talk recorded in April 2012)
Audience:
- Student
- Researcher
Duration: 10:57
