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Principal Investigator

Nathan Crook
BS: Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2009.
PhD: Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2014.
Postdoc: Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2017.
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Graduate Students

Ibrahim Al'Abri
BS: Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
Oman National graduate Fellow
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Carly Catella
Jointly advised with Dr. Stefano Menegatti
BS: Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
MSE: Biotechnology, University of Pennsylvania
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Scott Collins
Jointly advised with Dr. Chase Beisel
BS: Chemical Engineering, University of Washington
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Deniz Durmusoglu
BS: Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Tianyu Li
BS: Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University.
MS: Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Email: tli34@ncsu.edu
Zidan Li
Jointly advised with Dr. Gregory Reeves
BS: Bioscience, Jilin University.
Email: zli49@ncsu.edu
Ethan Purnell
Jointly advised with Dr. Stefano Menegatti
BS: Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia
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John Van Schaik
BS: Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University
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Justin Vento
Jointly advised with Dr. Chase Beisel
BS: Chemical Engineering, Manhattan College
NIH/NCSU MBTP Fellow
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Undergraduate Students

BS: CBE, NC State University
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Daniel Haller

BS: CBE, NC State University
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Laura Merkel

BS: CBE, NC State University
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Sean Sullivan

BS: CBE, NC State University
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Aarati Bothe

BS: CBE, NC State University
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Katie Day

BS: CBE, NC State University
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Allison Williams

BS: Microbial Biotechnology Intent, NC State University
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Anuj Jayaram
Alumni

Daniel Bun
BS: CBE, NC State University
Undergraduate. Summer 2018 - Spring 2020
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Iowa State University

BS: Bioengineering, Northeastern University, China
Undergraduate. Summer 2019
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Shuang Wu

BS: CBE, NC State University
Undergraduate. Fall 2018 -Spring 2019
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Caroline Moody

Tyler Jordan
BS: CBE, NC State University
Undergraduate. Summer 2018
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Ali Alkhater
BS: ChE, University Of Delaware
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Fellow
Undergraduate. Summer 2018
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Nick Dasburg
BS: Undergraduate. Biological Sciences, NC State University
Undergraduate. Spring 2018
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Fani Ttofali
BS: Biology, University of Colorado, Denver
MS: Master of Biomanufacturing, NC State University
Lab Manager/Research Associate. Spring 2018-Fall 2020
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Lab Manager/Research Associate at Tune Therapeutics