Buz Barstow Assistant Professor Biological and Environmental Engineering PhD in Applied Physics, Cornell University MSci. in Physics, Imperial College, London
Brooke Pian, Research Specialist
Brooke is working on knockout collections for chemoautotrophic microbes and oleaginous yeasts.
Farshid Salimijazi, Graduate Student
Farshid is working on hybrid microbial-electronic photosynthesis.
Alexa Schmitz, Postdoctoral Researcher
Alexa is working engineering microbes for the extraction and purification of rare earth elements.
Sean Medin, Graduate Student
Sean is working engineering microbes for the extraction and purification of rare earth elements.
Sabrina Marecos, Graduate Student
Sabrina is working on engineering Gluconobacter to enhance rare earth element bio-mining.
Eric Nshimyumukiza, Undergraduate Student
Eric is working on recombineering in Shewanella.
David Specht, Postdoctoral Researcher
David is working on upgrades to Knockout Sudoku and electromicrobial production.
Kuunemuebari (Don) Mini, Undergraduate Student
Don is working on rare earth element biosorption.
Deniz Sinar, Undergraduate Student
Deniz is working on electromicrobial production.
Canal Li, Undergraduate Student
Canal is working on improving the Knockout Sudoku algorithm.
Yimeng Zeng, Undergraduate Student
Yimeng is working on improving the Knockout Sudoku algorithm.
Alumni
Abby Adams, MEng Researcher
Abby is just get started in the lab, working on whole genome knockout collections.
Oluwakemi Adesina, Research Specialist
Kemi helped to build new high-throughput genetic screens for the Shewanella oneidensis Knockout collection to investigate the electron shuttling properties and growth of S. oneidensis. Kemi is now pursuing her dreams to be a medical doctor at the Drexel University College of Medicine.
Isao Anzai, Undergraduate Researcher
Isao helped develop the Shewanella oneidensis Knockout collection and is working on screening the Shewanella Sudoku collection for electron uptake. Isao from Columbia Medical School in May 2021, and is doing his residency at Columbia in cardiothoracic surgery.
Liat Kugelmass, Undergraduate Researcher
Liat helped create a high-throughput colorimetric assay to screen the Shewanella oneidensis Sudoku collection for electron uptake. Liat now works in Erin Stache's group in Cornell Chemistry.
Lev Shaket, Research Specialist Lev helped develop the Shewanella oneidensis Knockout collection. He currently builds software products for the information security industry.
Bram Baxter, Research Specialist
Bram is working on electron uptake in electroactive microbes, knockout collections for chemoautotrophic microbes and oleaginous yeasts, and high-throughput instrumentation.
Zac Chen, Undergraduate Researcher
Zac worked on whole genome knockout collections for oleaginous yeasts and now works at Gingko BioWorks.
Liangyue Song, Undergraduate Researcher
Liangyue is just getting started on the lab, working on electroactive microbes.
Zhengxing Xue, Undergraduate Researcher
Zhengxing is working on automation projects in the lab.
Sonia Jaidka, MEng Researcher
Sonia helped to build whole genome knockout collections for chemoautotrophic microbes. Sonia now works for Novome in San Francisco, CA.
Yannie Mei, MEng Researcher
Yannie worked on automation projects in the lab, and now works for Regeneron.
Don Flood, MEng Researcher
Don now works for Moderna in Cambridge, MA.
Rae Brigham, MEng Researcher
Rae came up with an amazing idea for CO2 mineralization accelerated by microbes.
Wei-Ann Chang, MEng Researcher
Wei-Ann worked on rare earth biosorption, and is currently in the MBA program at Cornell.
Katie Randolph, Graduate Student
Katie is working on Knockout Sudoku and a Ralstonia eutropha knockout collection, and E. coli that eats electricity.
Roan Chadsey, Undergraduate Student
Roan is working on rare earth element biosorption.
