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About

I go by Aizan, and I am a scientist. I graduated with a doctorate in October 2022 after completing my dissertation on viral immunology, specifically on how our body wards off respiratory viral infections. Shortly after, I continued my scientific training as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States. After 2 years of fellowship at the NIAID, I jumped into the biomedical industry working in the precision oncology field as a flow cytometrist. It is quite a departure from my infectious disease background, but it is the same immunology that I love and enjoy.

I came to the United States in January 2014 for a college degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York. I graduated in May 2017 and soon after that, I enrolled into a Ph.D. program at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

About This Blog

CaspershireNet was launched back in 2014. The name was inspired by a blogging platform called Ghost, which I was no longer using in favor of something much simpler, the Hugo. CaspershireNet has sister blogs called MetaCS (not receiving updates anymore) and Caspershire Aurora (currently active). Early in September 2023, CaspershireNet was migrated to Astro static-content generator and frontend framework. It was a complete revamp, and sadly, not all essays were ported from the old platform to this Astro-powered site.

CaspershireNet houses my long-form articles with less concentration on technical writing. Whereas, my MetaCS is where I jot down my technical notes about everything in biological science and information technology. As I said above, writing is my hobby and I stand by this motto:

A scribe’s lust pens the world’s words.

I hope you enjoy my (somewhat) critical thoughts on CaspershireNet.

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