I believe that cyanobacteria are fabulous miniature living factories that can be engineered for sustainable production of high value products and biofuels due to their versatile metabolic machinery. I am interested on doing research focused on determining viable pathways and engineering them for the sake of generating biofuels and valuable products as well as working on the achievement of high throughput and performance optimization by means of synthetic biology. When not in the lab or tenaciously working on colossal homework assignments; I can be found cooking, learning and practicing foreign languages and traveling. I am a graduate student in Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering. I began at WUSTL in the fall of 2012.