Lee Katz

I am the senior bioinformatician in the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch at CDC. In my free time, I try to be a good husband and parent, and in my imaginary free time, I podcast with my co-hosts on the Micro Binfie podcast.

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I am using my site to verify me on Mastodon. Nabil and Duncan spun up a Mastodon server at https://mstdn.science a few weeks ago and it has been wildly successful. This is my Mastodon username: @Lskatz@mstdn.science

To hear more about the server, please go to our podcast episode:

Nabil also has a nice blog post on Mastodon itself.

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