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Meet the 2014 Penn State iGEM Team: Overcoming the Challenges of Metabolic Pathway Engineering

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Penn State iGEM 2014 Team Members

Engineering A Biodexofication Pathway for Lignocellulosic Biomass Feedstock
Codon Optimization
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
Ashlee is a supersenior chemical engineer in the Schreyer Honors College. 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. short bio of clay
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Emily Sileo Sam Krug
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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!