TEAM
Young lab, old phenotypes.
Principal Investigator
Molecular and Cellular Biology & Astronomy
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Director: NASA Astrobiology Consortium MUSE
Email: betul AT arizona DOT edu
Curriculum Vitae
Amanda Garcia
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow
NASA Astrobiology Program
Paleobiology & Geobiology
Ph. D., UCLA, 2018
Sky Dominguez
Lab Manager
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Administration
M. Sc., UofA 2008
Zachary Adam
Associate Research Staff
Lunar and Planetary Labs
Astrobiology & Paleobiology
Ph.D., Montana State University, 2014
Mati Kedzior
Postdoctoral Fellow
Microbiology & Genomics
Postdoc, Duke University, 2018-2020
Ph.D. University of Wrocław, Poland, 2017
Cathryn Sephus
Graduate Student (AMP)
Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
Molecular and Cellular Biology
B. Sc., UofA, 2019
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Evrim Fer
Graduate Student
Genetics, GIDP
M. Sc, METU, 2019
B. Sc., ITU, 2016
Katie McGrath
Graduate Student
Molecular and Cellular Biology, ABBS
Lab Tech, Northwestern University, 2016-19
B. Sc. UofA, 2016


Andrew Liebenstein Wheeler
Graduate Student
Genetics, GIDP
Lab tech, U Minnesota, 2018-2020
B. Sc., Carleton College, 2018
Alex Rivier
Graduate Student (AMP)
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Computer Science

Emily Penaherrera
Undergraduate
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Brooke Carruthers
Undergraduate
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Astrobiology
Sandeep Venkataram
Lab Associate
Genomics & Population Biology
Sergey Kryazhimskiy Lab (UCSD)
Ph.D., Stanford 2016
Hope Dang
Associate
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Gone but not forgotten
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