About

William P. Dwyer

Biology PhD Candidate in the Dinneny Lab @ Stanford
Knight-Hennessy Scholar (2023), NIH Cell & Molecular Biology Trainee (2024)
Researcher @ SLAC National Accelerator Facility, Cryo-EM Division

Previously: Postbac in the Rhee Lab @ Carnegie Institution for Science
B.A. in Biochemistry @ Vassar College (2020)

Helloo00. Thank you for reading through my nerd page. It means more than you know. Sometime in my growing-up years, I fell in love with nature. At first, it was animals, then it became minerals, chemistry, metabolism, and finally, plants. I owe my curiosity to a large number of people. It's a testament to the gentle world I grew up in that I've been able to follow inquiry wherever it took me. I plan to make good on this gift, though it may take a while to figure out how. My interests currently are at the interface of biotic and abiotic systems, specifically: how do cells/tissues/organisms perceive their environment? I use the root—an innately sensitive organ—as a system to understand how plants sense their surroundings and regulate their development as the world around them changes.

I enjoy side-quests and meandering through branches of science. My lifelong aspiration is to resolve some of nature's magic and share it through storytelling. I hope this page can be an anthology for the stories I work on.