I am a Chemical and Biological Engineering student from Buffalo, NY working in the Atkinson Lab as part of the High Meadows Environmental Institute Summer Internship Program. My research interests center on engineering microbial communities through bacterial conjugation systems to better understand and control community-level metabolic functions. Outside the lab, I am a clarinet player in the Princeton University Orchestra and the Princeton University Wind Ensemble, a member of the ChemE Cube team (a competition run by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers), and a BSE Interactor.