Welcome to Keziah Chang who is joining the group as a graduate student in Bioengineering and is co-advised by Jose Avalos.

Welcome to Marko Chavez who is joining the group as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and bringing his expertise in biophysics, bioelectrochemical systems, and synthetic biology to the team!

The Atkinson lab has relocated buildings on Princeton’s Campus and is now housed in the new Bioengineering Institute within the SEAS-ES Complex. This will bring us spatially closer to bioengineers and environmental sciences at Princeton.

Welcome to Adhithi Raghavan who is joining as a Postdoctoral Research Associate joint between the Atkinson and Avalos labs. Adhithi brings her expertise in optogenetics, syntheic biology, and bioinformatics to the teams.

Yuang Guo (CEE - G1) traveled to Aarhus, Denmark to attend the Early Career Scientist Workshop and present on our work on cable bacteria at the Electromicrobiology 2025 meeting. He had the chance to meet and learn how to work with cable bacteria from our collaborators at the Center for Electromicrobiology

Congrats to Stacie Dressel (CBE - G1) who was awarded the prestigious 2025 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship!

Welcome to Stacie Dressel (CBE - G1) who all joined the group as a graduate student in Chemical and Biological Engineering

Welcome to Kayla Aksan (CEE - G1), Yuang Guo (CEE - G1), and Mi So Hwang (CEE - G1) who all joined the group as graduate students in Civil and Environmental Engineering