Although it’s difficult to completely encompass the contributions of these people, we’d like to give special thanks to the following individuals and sponsors:
About the Team
Faculty Advisors
Wei Niu
Associate Professor, advised the team in background knowledge, project direction, and troubleshooting.
Jiantao Guo
Associate Professor, offered his lab space and reagents, gave project direction, and assisted with troubleshooting.
Massimiliano Pierobon
Assistant Professor, advised the modeling components of our project.
Students
Alex Enersen
Alex is a psychology, computer science, and biological sciences triple major from Lincoln, Nebraska. Before entering graduate school for synthetic biology and climate change prevention, Alex is going to California for one year to compete in professional Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. In his free time, he likes to figure out the meaning of life outside of college.
Alex Meyer
Alex is a junior biochemistry major from Gothenburg, Nebraska. He plans to attend graduate school to study pharmacology after graduation.
Brandon Lassalle
Brandon is a senior biochemistry, microbiology, and biology triple major from Lake Forest, California. He plans to attend medical school in the coming fall.
Logan Hauder
Logan is a junior chemical engineering major from Milford, Nebraska. While he doesn't know where he will end up, he plans to go into industry after college. In his spare time, he enjoys snowboarding, sports, and other activities that he can enjoy with people.
Michael Banwo
Michael is (barely) a senior chemical engineering major from Omaha, Nebraska. He plans to go into the field of sustainable energy and preventing the uprising of oil field mongers who attribute to the Earth teetering towards calamity. He enjoys finger painting and playing the saxophone.
Noha Algahimi
Noha is a sophomore chemical engineering major from Lincoln, Nebraska. After college she plans on attending medical school and aquiring her MD-PhD. She enjoys kicking rocks and licking tape.
Rahul Prajapati
Rahul is a senior computer science major from Indore, India. He hopes to travel around after college and dive into industry. He enjoys writing, singing, and exploring the cosmos through his Meade LX850-ACF 14" f/8 Advanced Coma-Free German Telescope System with German Equatorial Mount and Ultra-High Transmission Coating.
Roxanne Mpinganzima
Roxanne is a junior integrated sciences major from Rwanda. After college she wants to go back to Rwanda and enter industry there. She enjoys being sucked into the world that is binge Netflix.