People · Young Lab

Principal Investigator

Eric M. Young

Affiliate: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology · Biology & Biotechnology · Biomedical Engineering

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Dr. Jaya Gupta

Postdoctoral Researcher

Interests: fungal highways, nonconventional yeast onboarding

Alexandria Adams

PhD Student

Interests: synthetic biology part collections, metabolic engineering, part transferability

Zekun Li

PhD Student

Interests: nonconventional yeast engineering, biofoundries, automation

Zoe Horton

PhD Student

Interests: incorporating cell engineering into cell culture

Nicole Petersen

PhD Student

Interests: nonconventional yeast engineering, natural products, fungal systems

Ruiyi Wang

PhD Student

Interests: yeast metabolic engineering, bioprocessing

Taylor Fiore

PhD Student

Interests: natural product biosynthesis, metabolic engineering

Dr. Nilesh Sharma (Postdoc) — now at Praj Industries
Dr. Leelakrishna Bankapalli (PhD) — now at Bycus Therapeutics
Dr. Joseph H. Collins (PhD) — now at Asimov
Dr. Kevin W. Keating (PhD) — now at Resilience
Dr. Cassandra Brzycki Newton (PhD) — now at Ayana Bio
Dr. Sarah J. Weintraub (PhD) — now at Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University
Jaclyn Thompson (Technician) — now at Synlogic
Trent Jones (Undergraduate Researcher) — now at Ginkgo BioWorks
Celeste Marsan (Undergraduate Researcher) — now at OmniSense Surgical, Inc.
Shravani Balaji (Undergraduate Researcher) — now at PhD Student, Yale University
Amparo Cosio (Undergraduate Researcher) — now at Asimov
Justin Roberts (Undergraduate Researcher) — now at PhD Student, University of Delaware