The Team

Shaafique Chowdhury
3rd year Chemical Engineering
B.S. in ChemE
Bangladesh University of Eng and Tech

Paola Marquez-Gomez
2nd year Chemistry
B.S. in Chemistry
Macalester College

Amisha Patel
3rd year BioEngineering
B.S. in ChemE
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ray Westenberg
2nd year BioEngineering
B.S. in Biochemistry
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

McKenna Downey
2nd year Chemical Engineering
B.S. in ChemE, North Carolina State University

Akshita Singh
2nd year BioInformatics
B.T. in Biotechnology
Manipal Institute of Technology

Ryan Langevin
1st year Chemistry
B.S. in Biochemistry
California Polytechnic State University

Prarthana Sanjeeva
1st year BioInformatics
B.E. in Biotechnology RV College of Engineering

Kimberly Wennerholm
Research Support
B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Georgia Tech

Garrett Helwig
Undergraduate Researcher
4th year Chemical Engineering

Haden Archer
Undergraduate Researcher
2nd year Chemistry

Lily Gao
Undergraduate Researcher
3rd year Industrial Engineering

Graduate students

Nick Kruyer, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 2021.
Now: Strain Engineer at Zymergen
Emily Yasi, Ph.D. Chemistry, 2020.
Now: Protein Engineer at JoynBio
Stephen Sarria, Ph.D. Chemistry, 2018.
Now: Research Scientist at Manus Biosciences
Amy Ehrenworth, Ph.D. Chemistry, 2017.
Now: Research Scientists at Air Force Research Laboratory

Vincent Peterson, M.S. Chemistry 2016.
Souryadeep Bhattacharyya, M.S. Chemical Engineering 2014

Postdocs

Rebecca Howie, postdoctoral researcher, May 2018-May 2020.
Now: Microbiologist at CDC
Kuntal Mukherjee, postdoctoral researcher, November 2012-May 2016
Now:  at Qiagen