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TEAM

Young lab, old phenotypes.

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Dr. Betül Kaçar

Principal Investigator
Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Director: NASA Astrobiology Consortium MUSE
Email: bkacar AT wisc DOT edu
Administr
ative 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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Kaustubh Amritkar

Graduate Student

Biophysics

M. Sc., IISER, Pune

B.Sc., IISER, Pune

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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

  • Brooke Carruthers (Undergrad, NASA Space Grant) — Grad student, University of Washington

  • Cathryn Sephus (Undergrad & Masters student) — Grad student, Scripps Oceanography 

  • Maddie Paoletti (Summer Undergrad Student, BMSIS) — Grad student, MIT

  • Roza Surme Mizrak (Summer Undergrad Student, BMSIS) — Grad student, Charité Universitat Berlin

  • Sofia Jacobson (Undergrad) — Grad student, Yale

  • Mati Kedzior (Postdoc) — Scientist, International HIV Vaccine Initiative, La Jolla, CA

  • Ryan Conant (KEYS High School Scholar) — Undergrad, University of Notre Dame

  • Ross Monasky (Lab Manager) — Research Associate, Midwestern Medical, AZ

  • Hanon McShea (Undergrad, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, Stanford University, CA

  • Ryan Ward (Undergrad, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)

  • Alex Plesa (Undergrad) — Graduate Student, Harvard Medical School

  • Ulku Uzun (MEME Visiting Scholar) — Graduate Student, Oxford University

  • Anna Donovan, Undergrad Student, BMSIS, Senior Thesis) — Researcher, Silk Therapeutics, Inc. 

  • Brett Enos (Lab Tech) — Graduate Student, Tulane University

  • Gokce Senger (Undergrad BMSIS, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, METU

  • Lily Tran (Undergrad) — Research Specialist, Georgia State University

  • 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

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