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. ​

Samira Shiri - Postdoc

Samira joined the lab in July 2019 and works on leveraging the interaction of liquids and surfaces for developing high throughput liquid handling devices and understanding thermal Marangoni-driven droplet stabilization. Samira completed her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University in the group of James Bird in 2019. 

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. 

Jon Albo - Graduate student

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. 

Arnold Chen - Graduate student

Arnold joined the lab in late 2020 and works on unraveling the complexities of microbial communities. He completed his undergraduate work at Northwestern University. 

Rena Fukuda  - Graduate student

Rena joined the lab in late 2021 and works on exploring combinatorial space with droplets. She completed her undergraduate work at Hofstra University.

 Shenghao Tan - Graduate student

Shenghao joined the lab in late 2020 and works on all things device related. He completed his undergraduate work at Clemson University. 

Yash Mundewadi -
Undergraduate Researcher

Yash is an undergraduate at IIT Kharagpur majoring in biotechnology and biochemical engineering. He is involved with accelerating simulations of networks and discovery of novel microbial genomes. 

Sejoon Jun -
Undergraduate Researcher

Sejoon is an undergraduate at Cornell University majoring in human biology, health, and society. He is involved with microbial screening with the goal of discovering clinically relevant metabolites.

Alumni

Shayandev Sinha

Mark Menesses

Dieter Baumgartner

Lizz Lugo Jordan

Adarsh Singh

Nkazi Nchinda

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