Taylor Ranson

During her undergraduate research, Taylor investigated the impact of three central metabolism mutations of E. coli on their ability to form biofilms. She is now investigating biofilm structure of E. coli and P. aeruginosa from our recent spaceflight experiment This picture shows Taylor loading a nanopore sequencer at NASA.

Evan Ortiz

Evan is working on a joint collaborative study with Jelena Tesic in computer science to develop a program to analyze microscopy images of microbial induced corrosion from our recent spaceflight experiment. This is another exciting interdisciplinary project as it involves coding and machine learning.

Amber Busboom

Amber is designing a qPCR protocol to identify and monitor individual members of a five-species microbial population that is commonly isolated from the water recovery system in the International Space Station.

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