I am a Biological Engineering student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working in the lab as part of Princeton’s 2025 Bioengineering Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (BE-SURE) program. In the lab, my goal is to build a series of biosensing plasmids for responding to metals, PFOA, and electrical signals in E. coli and S. oneidensis and to perform initial tests on using gas vesicles to control buoyancy in S. oneidensis. Outside of research, I enjoy dumpster diving, history, and exploring my school’s campus!