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TEAM

Young lab, old phenotypes.

Betül Kaçar

Principal Investigator
Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Director: NASA Astrobiology Consortium MUSE
Email: bkacar AT wisc DOT edu
Curriculum Vitae

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Amanda Garcia

NASA Postdoctoral Fellow

NASA Astrobiology Program

Paleobiology & Geobiology

Ph. D., UCLA, 2018

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Azul Pinochet-Barros

Research Associate

Lab Manager

Microbiology & Astrobiology

Ph. D., Cornell, 2020

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Zachary Adam

Senior Scientist

Geosciences

Ph.D., Montana State University, 2014

Webpage

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Bruno Cuevas Zuviría

Research Associate

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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Gizem Ozturk

Undergraduate

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Blue Marble Space Institute

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Katie McGrath

Graduate Student

Genetics

Lab Tech, Northwestern University, 2016-19

B. Sc. UofA, 2016

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Andrew Liebenstein Wheeler

MUSE Graduate Student (Masel Lab)

Genetics

Lab tech, U Minnesota, 2018-2020

B. Sc., Carleton College, 2018

Alex Rivier

Master's Student 

Microbiology

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Emily Penaherrera

Undergraduate

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Blue Marble Space Institute

Brooke Carruthers

Undergraduate 

Astrobiology

Blue Marble Space Institute

Gone but not forgotten

Cathryn Sephus (Undergrad & Masters student) — Graduate student, Scripps Oceanography UCSD

Mati Kedzior (Postdoc) — Scripps COVID-19 Research Task UCSD 

Alyks Odell (Undergrad) — Sophomore, Tokyo, Japan

Ryan Conant (KEYS Scholar) — Tucson High School, Tucson, AZ

Ross Monasky (Lab Manager) — Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

Leonardo Sandrini (Visiting Scholar) — Postdoc, University of Milan

Hanon McShea (Undergrad, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, Stanford University
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, Senior Thesis) — Researcher, Silk Therapeutics, Inc.
Gokce Senger (Undergrad, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, METU
Brett Enos (Lab Tech) — Graduate Student, Tulane University
Lily Tran (Undergrad) — Research Specialist, Georgia State University
Jennifer Zhang (Undergrad) — Research Specialist, Emory University