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TEAM
Young lab, old phenotypes.
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Principal Investigator
Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Director: NASA Astrobiology Consortium MUSE
Email: bkacar AT wisc DOT edu
Administrative assistant: Maria Katsoulidis
Dr. Amanda Garcia
Scientist
Project Coordinator: NASA MUSE
Paleobiology & Geobiology
Ph. D., UCLA, 2018
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Dr. Morgan Sobol
NASA Postdoc Fellow
NASA MUSE
Microbiology & Astrobiology
Ph. D., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 2022
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Dr. Zachary Adam
Senior Scientist
Geosciences & Origins of Life
Ph.D., Montana State University, 2014
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Dr. Bruno Cuevas Zuviría
Margarita Salas Postdoc Fellow
Computational Chemistry
Ph.D., Universidad Politecnica Madrid, 2021
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Evrim Fer
Graduate Student
MDTP
M. Sc, METU, 2019
B. Sc., ITU, 2016
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Katie McGrath
Graduate Student
(Kacar & Baltrus Labs)
Lab Tech, Northwestern University, 2016-19
B. Sc. University of Arizona, 2016
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Holly Rucker
Graduate Student
Geomicrobiology & Astrobiology
M.Sc., SUNY Stony Brook
B. Sc., James Madison University
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Dr. Zhen Peng
Postdoc
Origins of Life & Evolutionary Biology
Ph.D., Wash U, St. Louis
Scott Chang
Undergraduate
Microbiology
Amina Waheed
Undergraduate
Microbiology
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Gone but not forgotten
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Brooke Carruthers (Undergrad, NASA Space Grant) — Grad student, University of Washington
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Cathryn Sephus (Undergrad & Masters student) — Grad student, Scripps Oceanography
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Maddie Paoletti (Summer Undergrad Student, BMSIS) — Grad student, MIT
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Roza Surme Mizrak (Summer Undergrad Student, BMSIS) — Grad student, Charité Universitat Berlin
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Sofia Jacobson (Undergrad) — Grad student, Yale
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Mati Kedzior (Postdoc) — Scientist, International HIV Vaccine Initiative, La Jolla, CA
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Ryan Conant (KEYS High School Scholar) — Undergrad, University of Notre Dame
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Ross Monasky (Lab Manager) — Research Associate, Midwestern Medical, AZ
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Hanon McShea (Undergrad, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, Stanford University, CA
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Ryan Ward (Undergrad, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
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Alex Plesa (Undergrad) — Graduate Student, Harvard Medical School
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Ulku Uzun (MEME Visiting Scholar) — Graduate Student, Oxford University
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Anna Donovan, Undergrad Student, BMSIS, Senior Thesis) — Researcher, Silk Therapeutics, Inc.
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Brett Enos (Lab Tech) — Graduate Student, Tulane University
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Gokce Senger (Undergrad BMSIS, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, METU
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Lily Tran (Undergrad) — Research Specialist, Georgia State University
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Jennifer Zhang (Undergrad) — Research Specialist, Emory University
Alex Rivier
MSc. Student
B.Sc., University of Arizona
Steven Russell
Lab Manager
B.Sc. & M.S., University of North Dakota
Dr. Azul Pinochet Barross
Research Staff & Communications
LIFE RCN
Ph.D., Cornell University