Nate Cira - Principal Investigator
Nate completed undergraduate majors in biomedical engineering, biology, biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. He received his masters in 2013 and his PhD in 2017 from Stanford University where he was a member of the Quake lab. He has worked on projects involving microbiology, microfluidic devices, community ecology, capillarity and wetting, and network theory. He was an Evans Scholar, NSF GRFP Recipient, and a Siebel Scholar. He started the Cira lab as a Rowland Fellow at the Rowland Institute in late 2017 and as an assistant professor in Cornell University's Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering in 2021.
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Mohsin Qazi - Postdoc
Mohsin joined the lab in February 2020, and works on crystals, from perovskites to teeth. He completed his PhD at the WZI Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam in 2019.
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Jon Albo - PhD Candidate
Jon joined the lab in late 2020 and works on refining and using high throughput liquid handling devices. He is an NSF GRFP recipient and completed his undergraduate work at Florida State University.
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Arnold Chen - PhD CandidateArnold joined the lab in late 2020 and works on unraveling the complexities of microbial communities. He completed his undergraduate work at Northwestern University.
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Rena Fukuda - PhD CandidateRena joined the lab in late 2021 and works on exploring combinatorial space with droplets. She is an NSF GRFP recipient and completed her undergraduate work at Hofstra University.
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Shenghao Tan - PhD CandidateShenghao joined the lab in late 2020 and works on all things device related. He completed his undergraduate work at Clemson University.
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Alyson Dang - Undergraduate ResearcherAlyson is an undergraduate at Cornell University majoring in computational biology. She is involved with developing devices to enhance liquid handling.
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Aidan Larson - Undergraduate ResearcherAidan is an undergraduate at Cornell University majoring in biological and environmental engineering. He is involved with using liquid handling devices to study underappreciated biological concepts.
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Javier Mayorga-Kintanar - Master's StudentJavi is a master’s student at Cornell University in biomedical engineering. Javi previously completed his undergraduate work at Cornell and currently designs and builds new equipment to enable easier use of our liquid handling devices.
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Alumni
Shayandev Sinha Mark Menesses Samira Shiri Dieter Baumgartner Lizz Lugo Jordan Adarsh Singh Nkazi Nchinda Sejoon Jun Janna Wang Huaiyu Zuo |
Position
Postdoc Postdoc Postdoc Visiting Master's Student Visiting Master's Student Undergraduate Researcher Undergraduate Researcher Undergraduate Researcher Visiting Undergraduate Researcher Master's Student |
Currently
Intel Impossible Foods Assistant professor, University of Utah Grad student, ETH Zurich Abbott Brito Lab, Cornell University MD-PhD student, Harvard Medical School Medical student, SUNY Upstate Medical University Undergrad student, Duke Univeristy Master's student, Huazhong University of Science and Technology |