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Steering Committee

Victoria Orphan
Victoria Orphan, CEMI Director
James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science and Geobiology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions

William Clemons
William Clemons
Professor of Biochemistry

Lea Goentoro
Lea Goentoro
Professor of Biology

Jared Leadbetter
Jared Leadbetter
Professor of Environmental Microbiology

Mikhail Shapiro
Mikhail Shapiro
Professor of Chemical Engineering; Heritage Principal Investigator, Schlinger Scholar Affiliated Faculty of Bioengineering and Medical Engineering

Kaihang Wang
Kaihang Wang
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

Staff

Kristy Nguyen
Kristy Nguyen
CEMI Program Coordinator
626.395.3287
kristyn@caltech.edu

Faculty

Alexei Aravin
Alexei Aravin
Professor of Biology

Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry; Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center

Pamela Bjorkman
Pamela Bjorkman
Centennial Professor of Biology

Long Cai
Long Cai
Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

Judith Campbell
Judith Campbell
Professor of Chemistry and Biology

William Clemons
William Clemons
Professor of Biochemistry

Michael Elowitz
Michael Elowitz
Professor of Biology and Bioengineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Executive Officer for Biological Engineering

Woodward Fischer
Woodward Fischer
Professor of Geobiology

Lea Goentoro
Lea Goentoro
Professor of Biology

Viviana Gradinaru
Viviana Gradinaru
Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute; Director, Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Harry Gray
Harry Gray
Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry; Founding Director, Beckman Institute

Michael Hoffmann
Michael Hoffmann
John S. and Sherry Chen Professor of Environmental Science

Rustem Ismagilov
Rustem Ismagilov
Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Director of the Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine

Joe Kirschvink
Joe Kirschvink
Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology

Jared Leadbetter
Jared Leadbetter
Professor of Environmental Microbiology

Sarkis Mazmanian
Sarkis Mazmanian
Luis B. and Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute

Margaret McFall-Ngai
Margaret McFall-Ngai
Faculty Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech; Director, Division of Biosphere Sciences & Engineering

Richard Murray
Richard Murray
Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering

Dianne Newman
Dianne Newman
Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology; Executive Officer for Molecular Biology; CEMI founding director

Victoria Orphan
Victoria Orphan
James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science and Geobiology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Center for Environmental Microbial Interactions

Joseph Parker
Joseph Parker
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

Jonas Peters
Jonas Peters
Bren Professor of Chemistry; Director, Resnick Sustainability Institute

Niles Pierce
Niles Pierce
Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering

Rob Phillips
Rob Phillips
Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics, Biology, and Physics

Douglas Rees
Douglas Rees
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Dean of Graduate Studies

Michael Roukes
Michael Roukes
Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering

Ned Ruby
Ned Ruby
Faculty Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech

Alex Sessions
Alex Sessions
Professor of Geobiology

Mikhail Shapiro
Mikhail Shapiro
Professor of Chemical Engineering; Heritage Principal Investigator, Schlinger Scholar Affiliated Faculty of Bioengineering and Medical Engineering

Paul Sternberg
Paul Sternberg
Bren Professor of Biology

David Tirrell
David Tirrell
Provost; Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Carl and Shirley Larson Provostial Chair

David Van Valen
David Van Valen
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

Kaihang Wang
Kaihang Wang
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

Emeritus CEMI Faculty

Jacqueline Barton
Jacqueline Barton
John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry; Norman Davidson Leadership Chair, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

CEMI Visiting Faculty Fellows

Emily Balskus
Emily Balskus
Harvard University
Interest: Discovery of microbial enzymes and metabolites, understanding how microbial chemistry influences the biology of microbes and microbiomes.
Visiting 2023

Colleen Cavanaugh
Colleen Cavanaugh
Harvard University
Interest: Symbioses of bacteria in marine invertebrates from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, methane seeps, and coastal reducing sediments
Visiting 2020

Dao Nguyen
Dao Nguyen
McGill University (Canada)
Interest: Bacterial metabolism, antibiotic tolerance and host-pathogen interactions in chronic infection
Visiting 2019

John McCutcheon
John McCutcheon
University of Montana
Interest: Symbioses involving bacteria, fungi, and insects, with particular focus on the evolutionary, genomic, and cell biological processes that govern these interactions
Visiting 2018

Roy Kishony
Roy Kishony
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Interest: Predicting and preventing the evolution of antibiotic resistance
Visited 2018

Andreas Kappler
Andreas Kappler
University of Tuebingen
Interest: Interactions of microorganisms and minerals
Visited 2016, 2017

Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner
University of Vienna
Interest: Investigating the identity and function of individual microbial cells within their natural habitats
Visited 2016

Kevin Foster
Kevin Foster
University of Oxford
Interest: Social lives of microbes and other group-living species
Visited 2014, 2016

Jim Howard
Jim Howard
University of Minnesota
Interest: Microbial niches in unusual environments where nitrogen fixation may occur
Visited 2014

Stuart Conway
Stuart Conway
University of Oxford
Interest: Development of small molecule probes of bacterial function
Visited 2013

Ian Booth
Ian Booth
University of Aberdeen
Interest: The mechanisms and physiological roles of mechanosensitive channels
Visited 2012, 2013, 2014

Sean Elliott
Sean Elliott
Boston University
Interest: The interplay between biological systems and redox-active species
Visited 2012

Ned Ruby
Ned Ruby
University of Hawaii
Interest: Bacterial basis for biochemical and molecular events that characterize colonization of animal epithelial tissue
Visited 2011, 2012

Margaret Mcfall-Ngai
Margaret Mcfall-Ngai
University of Hawaii
Interest: Host-bacterial symbiosis and the 'design' of tissues that interact with light
Visited 2011, 2012

Caldwell CEMI Fellows

Shaelyn Silverman
Shaelyn Silverman
2022 Caldwell Fellow
Marine particulate organic matter turnover: insight into the microscale ecology, and development of a novel analytical (stable isotopic) tool for in situ environmental measurements
Advisors: Alex Sessions and Victoria Orphan

Shivansh Mahajan
Shivansh Mahajan
2021 Caldwell Fellow
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the arsenic detoxification machinery – the ArsAB efflux system, with implications for bioremediation
Advisors: Bil Clemons, Doug Rees, and Dianne Newman

Przemyslaw Dutka
Przemyslaw Dutka
2020 Caldwell Fellow
In situ structural analysis of gas vesicles by cryo-electron tomography
Advisors: Mikhail Shapiro and Grant Jensen

Manuel Razo Mejia
Manuel Razo Mejia
2019 Caldwell Fellow
A high-throughput, biophysics approach to study microbial evolution
Advisors: Rob Phillips and Matt Thomson

Asher Preska Steinberg
Asher Preska Steinberg
2018 Caldwell Fellow
Understanding how emulsifiers in food impact the colonic mucus barrier and microbe-host interactions
Advisors: Rustem Ismagilov and Sarkis Mazmanian

CEMI WAVE Fellows

Applications are due Jan 9, 2023. Visit the WAVE Fellows website.

Find out about our CEMI Teaching/Mentorship program with CalState LA and Pasadena City College.

Christian Cepeda
Christian Cepeda
Stanford
2022 CEMI WAVE Fellow
Mentor: Pamela Bjorkman

Madison Ochoa
Madison Ochoa
Northern Arizona University
2022 CEMI WAVE Fellow
Mentor: Dianne Newman

Jackeline Peraza
Jackeline Peraza
Barnard College of Columbia University
2022 CEMI WAVE Fellow
Mentor: Paul Sternberg

Alejandra Leal
Alejandra Leal
Cal State Los Angeles
2022 BBE CEMI WAVE Fellow
Mentor: Rodney Tollerson (Orphan Lab)

Juliann Panehal
Juliann Panehal
Cal State Los Angeles
2022 BBE CEMI WAVE Fellow
Mentor: Elliott Mueller (Sessions Lab)

Gia Han Vuong
Gia Han Vuong
Pasadena City College
2022 BBE CEMI WAVE Fellow
Mentor: Avi Flamholz (Newman Lab)

India Wesley-Cardwell
India Wesley-Cardwell
Cal State Los Angeles
2022 BBE CEMI WAVE Fellow
Mentor: Karen Orta (Clemons Lab)

Nicole Garrido
Nicole Garrido
UCLA
2021 CEMI WAVE Fellow
Characterizing the Microbial Ecology of Coastal Seagrass Roots and Associated Sediments
Mentors: Victoria Orphan, Kriti Sharma, James Mullahoo

Juan Santos
Juan Santos
Pitzer College
2021 CEMI WAVE Fellow
Identifying the Correlation Between N-oxide Reduction and Resistance to Antibiotics in Achromobacter xylosoxidans Clinical Isolates
Mentors: Dianne Newman, Zach Lonergan, Steven Wilbert

1st Year Graduate Student Fellows

Year Student Division
2022 Chiara Berruto Biology and Biological Engineering
2022 Joe Boktor Biology and Biological Engineering
2022 Michael Anne Bolene Engineering and Applied Science
2022 Madison Dunitz Geological and Planetary Sciences
2022 Anthony Guiterrez Biology and Biological Engineering
2021 David Aguirre Biology and Biological Engineering
2021 Vera Beilinson Biology and Biological Engineering
2021 Alejandro Cabrera Geological and Planetary Sciences
2021 Jarek Kwiecinski Geological and Planetary Sciences
2021 Juliet Lee Biology and Biological Engineering
2021 Kelly Shaffer Biology and Biological Engineering
2021 Sarah Weisflog Biology and Biological Engineering
2020 Matt Cooper Biology and Biological Engineering
2020 Noah Epstein Biology and Biological Engineering
2020 Richard Horak Biology and Biological Engineering
2020 Elin Larsson Biology and Biological Engineering
2020 Yancheng Li Biology and Biological Engineering
2020 James Mullahoo Engineering and Applied Science
2020 Vy Nguyen Biology and Biological Engineering
2020 Anastasiya Oguienko Biology and Biological Engineering
2020 Calvin Rusley Geological and Planetary Sciences
2020 Korbi Thalhammer Geological and Planetary Sciences
2020 Hannah Way Geological and Planetary Sciences
2020 Jee Won Yang Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2020 Raymond Zhang Biology and Biological Engineering
2019 Zevin Condiotte  Biology and Biological Engineering
2019 Hannah Dion-Kirschner Geological and Planetary Sciences
2019 Mengtong (Tom) Duan Biology and Biological Engineering
2019 Manisha Kapasiawala Biology and Biological Engineering
2019 Anastasiya (Ana) Moiseyenko Biology and Biological Engineering
2019 Alexander Winnett Biology and Biological Engineering
2019 Rebecca Wipfler Geological and Planetary Sciences
2019 Jie (Jolena) Zhou Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2018 Marjorie Buss  Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2018 Bryan Gerber  Biology and Biological Engineering
2018 Gabriel Salmon  Biology and Biological Engineering
2018 Shirin Shivaei  Biology and Biological Engineering
2018 Shaelyn Silverman  Geological and Planetary Sciences
2018 Daniel Wackelin  Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2018 Steven Wilbert  Biology and Biological Engineering
2018 Philip Woods  Geological and Planetary Sciences
2017 Jacob Barlow Biology and Biological Engineering
2017 John Ciemniecki Biology and Biological Engineering
2017 Zhiyang Jin Engineering and Applied Science
2017 Aditi Narayanan Biology and Biological Engineering
2017 Lev Tsypin Biology and Biological Engineering
2017 Nadezda Volovich Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2017 Renee Wang Geological and Planetary Sciences
2016 Bill Ling Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2016 Elliot Mackrell Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2016 Lealia Xiong Engineering and Applied Science
2015 Gray Chadwick Geological and Planetary Sciences
2015 April Jauhal Biology and Biological Engineering
2015 Anders Knight Biology and Biological Engineering
2015 Sujung Lim Geological and Planetary Sciences
2015 Usha Lingappa Geological and Planetary Sciences
2015 Xinyan Liu Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2015 Lucas A. Meirelles Biology and Biological Engineering
2015 Andrew Patterson Biology and Biological Engineering
2015 Elena Perry Biology and Biological Engineering
2015 Malaney Young Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2014 Kyle Metcalfe Geological and Planetary Sciences
2014 Scott Saunders Biology and Biological Engineering
2014 Meaghan Sullivan Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
2014 Chanel Valiente Geological and Planetary Sciences
2013 Sean Mullin Geological and Planetary Sciences
2013 Sofia Quinodoz Biology and Biological Engineering
2013 Yapeng Su Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
2012 Michael Abrams Biology and Biological Engineering
2012 Tahmineh Khazaei Biology and Biological Engineering
2012 Sushant Sundaresh Biology and Biological Engineering
2012 Lewis Ward Geological and Planetary Sciences

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