The Delgado Lab would like to welcome Justin Skinner to the Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology. Justin is from Colombia, South Carolina home of barbeques, mosquitos, and alligators. He is in the environmental engineering PhD program and plans to study the biodegradation of perfluoroalkyl substances. Justin obtained his master’s degree in water and environmental management at the Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. His future plans are to work at an environmental NGO, become a part of the CDC, EPA or WHO. With so much traveling experience, such as living in Mexico as a public health official, working in Key West as an ecology tour guide, developing a method for surfactant quantification in Edinburgh, Justin would also like to live and work outside the United States as an environmental engineer for public health organizations.
Evelyn Miranda is a third-year graduate student in the Biological Design Program and the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. She studies the removal/precipitation of metals through the use of sulfate-reducing bacteria in bioreactors.