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 and thank you for reading through my nerd page. A bit about me: I was raised in France, where I spent my childhood making swords out of backyard bamboo. My family immigrated to the US when I was in high school; I discovered the joys of chemistry along with the lawless world of Ebay and got my hands on beryllium and other substances no teenager should possess. My descent into the dark world of biology started in college, and after a brief foray into biomedical research, I fell in love with plants and their alien bodies. I followed my newfound interest to (metaphorically) greener pastures in California where I trained as a plant biologist under Seung Yon Rhee. Currently, I'm working on my PhD under the watchful eye of José Dinneny. My interests 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.