Jasmine Escobedo
Jasmine Escobedo
Undergraduate StudentJasmine, 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.