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Marco Dueñas-Algal

Marco Dueñas-Algal

Marco is a plant biology PhD candidate in the lab of Sabeeha Merchant. His research focuses on using green algae as a platform for fundamental discovery and synthetic biology. This ranges from uncovering anomalies in eukaryotic translation to bioengineering algae for...
Rebecca Tarnopol

Rebecca Tarnopol

Climate change poses a serious threat to the stability of our food systems world-wide. Crop losses due to insect pests, which can range from 10-20% of net primary productivity, are projected to increase with a warming climate. Parasitoid wasps, which kill their insect...
Henry J. Squire

Henry J. Squire

Henry is a PhD candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the Landry Lab working on plant biotechnology tools. Improving agricultural systems to produce increasing quantities of food under rapidly evolving abiotic/biotic stresses in a sustainable manner...
Kyle Rosenblad

Kyle Rosenblad

Insular habitats, such as true islands or patchy mountain meadows, are both valuable natural laboratories and vulnerable biodiversity hotspots. Populations and communities in these habitats may be especially vulnerable to climate change. As a PhD candidate in the...
Jenny Linder Rempel

Jenny Linder Rempel

Climate adaptation presents a potentially transformative opportunity to address the persistent spatialized, racialized, and socioeconomic disparities shaping access to safe water. As a community-engaged scholar in the Energy and Resources Group and a co-leader of the...