She/They
I use engineered living materials for rare earth element recovery, investigate microbe-mineral interactions in the soil, and develop synthetic biology tools for marine microbial ecology.
Favorite scientists: David Bohm, Sir Roger Penrose, Sir C. V. Raman
Education: Ph.D. student, Systems, Synthetic, & Physical Biology Program, co-advised by Prof. Carrie Masiello
BSc. Physics and Mathematics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
M.S. Bioengineering, Rice University
ss113 at rice dot edu
C. Ajo-Franklin Group Publications:
“A Framework for the Systematic Selection of Biosensor Chassis for Environmental Synthetic Biology,” Swetha Sridhar*, Caroline M. Ajo-Franklin, Caroline A. Masiello, ACS Synthetic Biology, (2022).