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Jenna Harvestine	Patrick Van Handel	James Wiatr
Year: Senior Hometown: Sussex, WI Extracurricular Activities: Women’s Varsity Soccer, Women’s Varsity Basketball, Engineer’s Without Borders, Society for Biological Engineers Future Plans: Graduate School & Working in the pharmaceutical/drug discovery industry Favorite Quote: "Enjoy the journey because without any failures you can never truly appreciate the success." Favorite Movie: Bridesmaids Favorite Microorganism: Influenza virus	Year: Senior Hometown: Appleton, WI Extracurricular Activities: Society for Biological Engineers Future Plans: Graduate School Favorite Quote: "Time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted." Favorite Movie: Law Abiding Citizen Favorite Microorganism: Toxoplasma gondii	Year: Senior Hometown: Chicago, IL Extracurricular Activities: Running Future Plans: Develop Vaccines Favorite Quote: "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." Favorite Movie: The Prestige Favorite Microorganism: Thermus Thermophilus
Rebecca Majewski	Matthew Reichartz	Selena Dickinson
Year: Junior Hometown: Sun Prairie, WI Extracurricular Activities: Rowing Team, Society of Biological Engineers Future Plans: Ph.D in Cancer Biology Favorite Quote: "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson Favorite Movie: Thor Favorite Microorganism: Tardigrade ("Water Bear")	Year: Junior Hometown: Milwaukee, WI Extracurricular Activities: Football, video games, Frisbee golf Future Plans: Research Assistant Favorite Quote: “I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way." -Dr. Ian Malcolm Favorite Movie: Good Will Hunting Favorite Microorganism: Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Beer/wine making)	Year: Sophomore Hometown: Oconto, WI Extracurricular Activities: Society for Biological Engineers, Women’s Varsity Volleyball, Club Volleyball Coach, Swing Dance Club Future Plans: Attend graduate school for biochemistry Favorite Quote: “You have to make your own sunshine.” Favorite Movie: Les Miserables Favorite Microorganism: Lactococcus cremoris—important bacteria in making cheddar cheese
Dr. Katarina Midelfort	Dr. Jung Lee	Dr. Faisal Shaikh
She completed a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry/C.S. track from Carnegie Mellon University, a master’s degree in Biophysics and Computational Biology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a doctorate degree in Molecular and Systems Pharmacology and Toxicology from the Biological Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked in both small and large company settings and has experience in expression, purification, characterization and engineering of proteins, biocatalysis, synthetic biology, and metabolic engineering. She has research interests in biocatalysis and metabolic engineering for the synthesis of biofuels, pharmaceutical intermediates, fine chemicals, metabolites, and other small molecules as well as a passion for practicing engineering education through applied examples and active learning and making engineering and science accessible for all. In her free time, she also loves to hike.	Ph.D., Bioinformatics and Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin M.S., Quantum and Computational Chemistry, Korea Institute of Science and Technology B.S., Chemistry, Kyung Hee University at Seoul	Faculty Bio