Team Grinnell

Who we are

Advisor:

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

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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!