Sally Warring is a biologist and postdoctoral research scholar at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Originally from New Zealand, Sally Warring is an explorer with a microscope who turned New York City—and all its free-standing water (think: puddles, ponds, sewers)—into her research laboratory. Through her project Pondlife, she travels around the 5 boroughs to collect water samples, then documents the living microscopic organisms found there. Her Instagram account @pondlife_pondlife seeks to communicate basic concepts of biology, survival, and the evolution of life in visually stimulating ways–using NYC still water as her canvas.

Sally Warring has a B.Sc. with Honors in Botany from the University of Melbourne in Australia, and a PhD in genomics and molecular biology from New York University.

Sally is an experienced science educator, seeking to connect people with the awe-inspiring world of science and microbiology. Her mediums for creative communication include film, TV, radio, social media, and print. Her work on Pondlife has been profiled in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Atlantic. You can likely find her on any given Saturday in Prospect Park with her mobile microscope.

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Key Publications:

Martina Bradic, Sally D Warring, Grace E Tooley, Paul Scheid, William E Secor, Kirkwood M Land, Po-Jung Huang, Ting-Wen Chen, Chi-Ching Lee, Petrus Tang, Steven A Sullivan, Jane M Carlton, Genetic indicators of drug resistance in the highly repetitive genome of Trichomonas vaginalis. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2017 June 19.

Warring SD, Dou Z, Carruthers VB, McFadden GI and van Dooren GG, Characterisation of the Chloroquine Resistance Transporter homologue in Toxoplasma gondii. Eukaryotic Cell, 2014 May 23.

Bradic M, Warring SD, Low V, and Carlton JM, The Tc1/mariner transposable element family shapes genetic variation and gene expression in the protist Trichomonas vaginalis. Mobile DNA, 2014 Apr 24;5:12.
Conrad MD, Bradic M, Warring SD, Gorman AW, and Carlton JM. Getting Trichy: Tools and Approaches to interrogating Trichomonas vaginalis in a Post-Genome World. Trends in Parasitology. 2012 Jan;29(1):17-25.