Durga Thakral is an undergraduate working in the laboratory of Thomas A. Steitz in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale. Her interests include ribosome-binding antibiotics, cell-free protein synthesis, and drug delivery.
Chidi Akusobi is a senior at Yale University majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He currently conducts research in a virology lab where he investigates how bacteriophages can be made more lethal against enterohemorrhagic E. coli. He has been a member of the Yale iGEM since its inception in January 2010, and after graduation plans to continue studying virology in graduate school.