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Meet Team Stanford-Brown-RISD!

Cale Lester

Cale is a senior at Stanford Univeristy majoring in Bioengineering. He is particularly interested in using the synergy of genetic engineering and synthetic biology as means to solve global challanges. When he isn't operating at the forefront of innovation in the lab he enjoys serenading others on the saxophone and piano, cooking with too much garlic, and wishing he wasn't allergic to dogs.

Cale is working on the project's mycelium-specific glue, as well as filtration.

Emilia Mann

Emilia is a third year student in the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program. She is concentrating in Mechanical Engineering at Brown and majoring in Apparel at RISD; her particular interest is the intersection between biology, technology, and fashion. Emilia has an unconditional love for labradors (especially her own doggo, Chai Latte) and boba.

Emilia is currently working on developing the material produced by mycelium, mission architecture, human practices, and biosensors.

Santosh Murugan

Santosh is a Stanford senior majoring in Symbolic Systems (a mix of Computer Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics: concentrating in Human-Computer Interaction), on a premedical track. His academic interests include artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and other biotech. Prior to NASA, he worked in computational genomics at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In his spare time, he enjoys scuba diving, racing triathlons, and watching the Dallas Cowboys.

Santosh is working on the filtration aspect of the project.

Leo Penny

Leo is currently working towards a degree in geochemistry at Brown University but is also interested in a double major with biology. The only thing Leo loves more than his home-state of Texas is synthetic biology. When not working in the lab he is hopefully sleeping and eating, though this is unconfirmed.

Leo is working on genetically modifying our filamentous fungus as well as mission architecture for the project.

Javier Syquia

Javier is a third year in the Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program, majoring in Chemistry at Brown and Graphic Design at RISD. He is interested in the ways design and STEM may interact in unexpected yet seemless manners. Outside of the lab, Javier can be found sipping on nitro cold brew or bubble tea.

Javier is currently working on developing the material made of fungal mycelia, the project's mission architecture, biosensors, and the team's wiki and other designs.

Gabe Weininger

Gabe is a senior at Stanford studying neurobiology. Gabe is a monster at ping pong and welcomes challengers.

Gabe is working on creating a mycelium-specific bioglue and developing a light-induced system in bacillus subtilis to secrete the glue. He is also working on the filtration part of the project.

Meet Our Advisors

Dr. Nils Averesch

Dr. Nils Averesch is the Synthetic Biology Task Lead with Universities Space Research Association as a Visiting Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, USA. He received his PhD in 2016 from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where he focused on Metabolic Engineering at the Centre for Microbial Electrosynthesis. He holds an engineer’s degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Biochemical Engineering, from the Technical University of Dortmund in Dortmund, Germany, having graduated in 2011.

Dr. Tomasz Zajkowski

Dr. Tomasz Zajkowski is a Visiting Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, USA. His research is focused on protein aggregation, amyloid, and prion formation that might be one of the oldest characteristics of proteins. He's also interested in astrobiology because it provides a liberating perspective on mainstream evolution as it highlights the connection between the physical environment, and the evolution of life on Earth and beyond.