Graduate Students
Graduate Student
314.935.4964
I am a PhD candidate in Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering. I joined the lab in May 2009. I am working to apply techniques developed to optimize the operation of chemical reactors to get more useful stuff out of our favorite micro-reactors: cyanobacteria.
Cyanobacteria created most of the organic material that time and geological forces turned into the fossil fuels we rely on to meet our energy and materials needs today. I believe that engineered cyanobacterial strains can play a major part in meeting those needs in the future. I am working to create those strains.
Graduate Student
714 475-9150
I became caught up in the intricacies and quirks of plants after my first plant biology class at UC Berkeley. One of my most memorable experiences in college was when I devilishly persuaded my friends to taste pretty pine resin, simply to giggle at the grimaces on their faces. I also encouraged my parents to munch on briny, succulent Salicornia stems so they could appreciate its' ability to store salt. To this day, I love to discuss the medicinal properties of various plants that I see with anyone who will listen.
Graduate Student
(314) 935-6862
As a joint Chemistry graduate student in the labs of Professors Pakrasi and Michael Gross, I am interested in using mass spectrometry-based techniques, as well as more traditional biological approaches, to study questions in Photosystem II assembly and function.