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Penn State iGEM 2014 Team Members
| Ashlee Smith- Project Lead, Supersenior in Chemical Engineering
Completing Honors Thesis in Chemical Engineering |
Clay Swackhamer- Project Lead, Senior in Biological Engineering
Completing Honors Thesis in Biological Engineering |
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| Ashlee is a supersenior Chemical Engineer in the Schreyer Honors College and is also completing a minor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She has worked in the laboratory of Dr. Howard Salis for two years and started her second project in January 2014 which she will use for her thesis. In her first project, she determined the ribosome binding footprint of Escherichia coli ribosomes to help improve Dr. Salis' Ribosome Binding Site Calculator. These results will be published in an upcoming paper. During the school year she works as an exam proctor for the Penn State Chemistry Department and is involved in various intramural sports and clubs, including the Penn State Outing Club. She loves to run, hike, bike, backpack, rock climb, ski, and play any outdoor sport. When she isn't in lab, she is most often found adventuring in the woods around Penn State or at Centre County PAWS animal shelter where she leads volunteer shifts and trains dogs. Her plans after graduation in the fall of 2014 are to either pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry or go to graduate school with a focus on synthetic biology or environmental engineering. She hopes to move out to California or Colorado and thru-hike the Appalachian Trail after graduation (despite the picture below, she has not yet graduated). | short bio of clay | |
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| Emily Sileo | Sam Krug | |
| short bio of emily | Sam is going into his senior year studying Chemical Engineering. Additionally, he is pursuing a minor in music performance and is an active member of the Penn State Clarinet Studio. He continues to develop his academic skills throughout the year by conducting research in the metabolic and genetic engineering lab under the direction of Dr. Howard Salis. He had his first exposure to research last summer and was trained in one of the Four Diamonds Research Labs in Hershey headed by Dr. Sinisa Dovat. This summer, he is a curriculum mentor for Penn State’s Science U, which is a series of camps that members of all different departments of the university have an opportunity to design a weeklong curriculum for grades 2-12 to help inspire lifelong learning. He is currently serving as the Pride Events Director for Penn State Homecoming 2014 and has recently been appointed as the Special Events –Event Management Director for the Special Interest Association for the 2014-2015 school year. Throughout his time at Penn State, he has enjoyed participating in the Symphonic Band, Clarinet Choir, and THON. | |
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Team Instructors
| Dr. Howard Salis - Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering | Dr. Tom Richard - Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Director of Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment |
| Research Area: Synthetic Biology - click here to view his research! | Research Area: Bioenergy and Bioresource Engineering - click here to view his research! |
