Team Grinnell

Who we are

Grinnell College

Grinnell College is a small, liberal arts school located in the beautiful and fun small town of Grinnell, IA.

Advisor:

Lisa Bowers : Lisa recieved her Postdoctoral Fellow 2007-2010 from the University of California - Berkeley, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Microbiology. She is currently an assistant professor of Biology at Grinnell College teaching courses in Molecular Biology and Microbiology.

Undergrads:

Alex Aaring: Alex just finished his sophomore year at Grinnell College as a Biological Chemistry major. He originally hails from Eugene, OR.

Nora Kostow: Nora is a third year Biology major from New York, NY. She is interested in Genetics and Molecular Biology. She enjoys short bike rides, porches and cheesecake.

Qimeng Gao: Qimeng will be a third year Biology major this coming fall. He is from Hangzhou, China.

Lisa Bowers

Alex Aaring

Nora Kostow

Qimeng Gao

We each worked on out own aspect of the project by working with a specific gene that would contribute to the overall goal.

Qimong Gao: esp

Nora Kostow: DspB

Alex Aaring: rsaA C-terminal

We will work as a group to test the expression of the proteins and the affect our engineered C. crescentus has on biofilm.

IOWA!