diff --git a/content/posts/about-me.md b/content/posts/about-me.md index 4142725..19e19c1 100644 --- a/content/posts/about-me.md +++ b/content/posts/about-me.md @@ -11,14 +11,18 @@ weight = 1 My name is Zachary Billman. I'm an MD-PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill in Ed Miao's lab. The curious reader may be thinking: "But Zach, Ed Miao's lab is at Duke now! What does that make you?" What an astute question! I am a card-carrying UNC Microbiology and Immunology student who happens to have all of their research take place at Duke. This makes for very interesting basketball viewing parties with my Duke friends! -## Science. {#science-dot} +## My Research and Science Interests. {#my-research-and-science-interests-dot} I am in the 4th year of my PhD studying the host-pathogen interaction between the intracellular fungus _Histoplasma capsulatum_ and macrophages. There are many unstudied curiosities regarding the innate immune response to _Histoplasma spp._ and other intracellular fungi that I think are quite interesting. -## Hobbies. {#hobbies-dot} +## Hobbies to be found here. {#hobbies-to-be-found-here-dot} -Besides my science, I am interested in birding, baking sourdough bread (I swear I began years before the pandemic, though hearing of people baking bread brings me joy no matter when they first began!), board games, roasting coffee, and self-hosting free and open source software. Over the course of the pandemic, I have learned how to maintain a basic suite of services on a server I rent that have replaced my need for Google Photos and Google Drive. I also transitioned my old, (and quite frankly, embarassingly slow) managed Wordpress site with this lean, static site made in Hugo that I host myself. I'm quite proud of my progress in this regard. +Besides my science, I am interested in birding, baking sourdough bread (I swear I began years before the pandemic, though hearing of people baking bread brings me joy no matter when they first began!), board games, roasting coffee, and self-hosting free and open source software. Over the course of the pandemic, I have learned how to maintain a basic suite of services on a server I rent that have replaced my need for Google Photos and Google Drive. +\#begin_sidenote +I'm not a huge fan, despite how nice these services can be. I am on a mission to reclaim my data, a mission that will hopefully be described in a future post. +\#end_sidenote +I also transitioned my old, (and quite frankly, embarassingly slow) managed Wordpress site with this lean, static site made in Hugo that I host myself. I'm quite proud of my progress in this regard. ## The future of this site. {#the-future-of-this-site-dot}