Barstow Research Team

Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Current Members

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Ayman Abou-Alfa, Undergraduate Researcher

Ayman is working on the Microbe-Mineral Atlas.


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Razan Alharthi, Graduate Researcher

Razan is working on building autotrophic strains of Vibrio natriegens.


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Alia Almansoori, Graduate Researcher

Alia is working on engineering Gluconobacter oxydans for biomining on Earth and in space.


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Louis Anscombe, Undergraduate Researcher

Louis is a visiting undergraduate from the University of Bristol in the UK working on electromicrobial production.


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Daria Balabantseva, Undergraduate Researcher

Daria is working on engineering Gluconobacter oxydans.


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Buz Barstow, Associate Professor

Buz does something.


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Megan Cheng, Undergraduate Researcher

Megan is working on engineering Vibrio natriegens for carbon fixation.


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Joseph Lee, Graduate Researcher

Joseph was a technician in the lab, and then later joined for a PhD working on accelerated carbon mineralization and biomining. Joe is studying the systems biology of weathering of ultramafic rocks.


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Luke Plante, Graduate Student

Luke works on bio-accelerated weathering.


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Gretchen Vengerova, Graduate Researcher

Gretchen works on bio carbon mineralization and on the limits of what biology can do in sustainability.


Alumni