Kerem, undergraduate in the department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked with Drs. Arkin & Mutalik. The project a systemic approach to enrich, isolate, characterize, and engineer novel ssRNA phages that support the agricultural, environmental, and possibly health strategies.
Isra was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley in Environmental Sciences. She worked with Dr. Bradley Biggs on ENIGMA to conduct research focusing on pairwise microbial interactions under low pH and anaerobic conditions, with aims of applying this to broader biological modeling efforts.
Erzsabet is an undergraduate studying Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. She worked with Dr. Bradley Biggs. She constructed new plasmid variants to expand the genetic toolbox for gut bacteria with the overall goal of studying gene functions.
Jasmine, an undergraduate bioengineering major at UC Berkeley. She worked with Dr. Bradley Biggs using genomic fragments to analyze the function of particular bacterial enzymes. This involves genetic recombination and cultivation of bacteria to study the observed behavior of unknown genes. This work is part of the broader ENIGMA goals of understanding the metagenomic data gathered at the site and improving our ability to move from metagenomic DNA to practical function of the microbial communities.
Min is a second year undergraduate student at Berkeley studying bioengineering. She works with Dr. Biggs to characterize enzyme genotypes and functions from metagenomic data based on the iterative workflow that involves parallel sequencing and complementation assay. The project takes isolate level approaches that can be combined with field studies to fill in the gaps in understanding metabolism.
Spencer Zezulka undergrad at UC Berkeley in the departments of MCB and astrophysics. He joined CUBES in October 2021 and worked with Aaron Berliner to computationally model compact object accretion disks in search of a potentially habitable region. Outside of his own aforementioned project, he assisted teammates at CUBES in data visualization and mathematical modeling.
Cameran Casale is a second year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley studying bioengineering. She is currently working with Aaron Berliner on the CUBES project. Through her work at this lab, Cameran is interested in exploring different biological applications within space systems, such as the utilization of biologically derived materials in the development of nanoscale devices.
Shuwen Hou was an undergraduate student at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) studying biochemistry. She attended UC Berkeley for an exchange study.
Shuwen worked with Dr. Fangchao Song to profile the microbial physiology in different conditions through droplet-based microfluidics as part of the ENIGMA project.
Kim Pham undergraduate in the Bioengineering Dept. She worked with Dr. Jake Hilzinger to develop a pan-genome on the CUBES project
Batu is an undergraduate in the Bioengineering Dept. Batu works with Dr. Vivek Mutalik. The project a systemic approach to enrich, isolate, characterize, and engineer novel ssRNA phages that support the agricultural, environmental, and possibly health strategies.
