TEAM
Young lab, old phenotypes.
Principal Investigator
Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Director: NASA Astrobiology Consortium MUSE
Email: bkacar AT wisc DOT edu
Administrative assistant: Maria Katsoulidis
Dr. Amanda Garcia
Scientist
Project Coordinator: NASA MUSE
Paleobiology & Geobiology
Ph. D., UCLA, 2018
Dr. Morgan Sobol
NASA Postdoc Fellow
NASA MUSE
Microbiology & Astrobiology
Ph. D., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 2022
Dr. Zachary Adam
Senior Scientist
Geosciences & Origins of Life
Ph.D., Montana State University, 2014
Dr. Bruno Cuevas Zuviría
Margarita Salas Postdoc Fellow
Computational Chemistry
Ph.D., Universidad Politecnica Madrid, 2021
Evrim Fer
Graduate Student
MDTP
M. Sc, METU, 2019
B. Sc., ITU, 2016
Katie McGrath
Graduate Student
(Kacar & Baltrus Labs)
Lab Tech, Northwestern University, 2016-19
B. Sc. University of Arizona, 2016
Holly Rucker
Graduate Student
Geomicrobiology & Astrobiology
M.Sc., SUNY Stony Brook
B. Sc., James Madison University
Dr. Zhen Peng
Postdoc
Origins of Life & Evolutionary Biology
Ph.D., Wash U, St. Louis
Scott Chang
Undergraduate
Microbiology
Amina Waheed
Undergraduate
Microbiology
Gone but not forgotten
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Brooke Carruthers (Undergrad, NASA Space Grant) — Grad student, University of Washington
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Cathryn Sephus (Undergrad & Masters student) — Grad student, Scripps Oceanography
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Maddie Paoletti (Summer Undergrad Student, BMSIS) — Grad student, MIT
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Roza Surme Mizrak (Summer Undergrad Student, BMSIS) — Grad student, Charité Universitat Berlin
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Sofia Jacobson (Undergrad) — Grad student, Yale
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Mati Kedzior (Postdoc) — Scientist, International HIV Vaccine Initiative, La Jolla, CA
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Ryan Conant (KEYS High School Scholar) — Undergrad, University of Notre Dame
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Ross Monasky (Lab Manager) — Research Associate, Midwestern Medical, AZ
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Hanon McShea (Undergrad, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, Stanford University, CA
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Ryan Ward (Undergrad, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
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Alex Plesa (Undergrad) — Graduate Student, Harvard Medical School
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Ulku Uzun (MEME Visiting Scholar) — Graduate Student, Oxford University
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Anna Donovan, Undergrad Student, BMSIS, Senior Thesis) — Researcher, Silk Therapeutics, Inc.
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Brett Enos (Lab Tech) — Graduate Student, Tulane University
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Gokce Senger (Undergrad BMSIS, Senior Thesis) — Graduate Student, METU
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Lily Tran (Undergrad) — Research Specialist, Georgia State University
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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