SYBORGS Lab
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Postdoc: University of California, Berkeley; University of Michigan
Ph.D., M.S.E.: University of Michigan
B.A.Sc.: University of Waterloo
amormenezes [-at-] ufl.edu
Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
M.Tech.: Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
B.Tech.: Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
SYBORGS Project: Synthetic Biology
payalmukherje [-at-] ufl.edu
PH.D. STUDENT (BME)
M.Sc.: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
B.Sc.: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
SYBORGS Project: Regulating Inflammation-Mediated Coagulopathy
nonditadatta [-at-] ufl.edu
PH.D. STUDENT (BME)
M.Sc.: Carnegie Mellon University
B.Sc.: Wichita State University
SYBORGS Project: Regulating Inflammation-Mediated Coagulopathy
cgatti [-at-] ufl.edu
PH.D. STUDENT (Genetics and Genomics)
B.Sc.: University of Georgia
2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellow
SYBORGS Project: Space Synthetic Biology
j.golan [-at-] ufl.edu
PH.D. STUDENT (MAE)
M.Sc.: University of Colorado Boulder
B.Sc.: University of Arizona
2025 Kirkland Fellow, 2025 HWCOE Dean's Research Award
SYBORGS Project: Space Synthetic Biology
ghalferty [-at-] ufl.edu
PH.D. STUDENT (MAE)
B.Sc.: University of Florida
2024 HWCOE Dean's Research Award, 2023-2024 University Scholar
SYBORGS Project: Space Biosystems Engineering
he.jarvis [-at-] ufl.edu
PH.D. CANDIDATE (MAE)
B.Sc.: University of Florida
2023 HWCOE Dean's Research Award
SYBORGS Project: Space Biosystems Engineering
angela.lalovic [-at-] ufl.edu
PH.D. CANDIDATE (MAE)
M.Sc. (ME): Johns Hopkins University
M.Sc. (AE): Imperial College London
B.Eng.: University of Bristol
SYBORGS Project: Controlling Positive Dynamical Biomolecular Systems
g.liu1 [-at-] ufl.edu
PH.D. CANDIDATE (Genetics and Genomics)
B.Sc.: Indian River State College
2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellow
SYBORGS Project: Synthetic Biology
ronaldmasse [-at-] ufl.edu
PH.D. CANDIDATE (Genetics and Genomics)
B.Sc.: University of Florida
2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellow
SYBORGS Project: Space Synthetic Biology
hannah.roberts [-at-] ufl.edu
MASTER'S STUDENT (BME)
B.Sc.: University of Florida
SYBORGS Project: Space Synthetic Biology
erikamalits [-at-] ufl.edu
BACHELOR'S STUDENT (MAE)
SYBORGS Project: Space Biosystems Engineering
l.beaubien [-at-] ufl.edu
BACHELOR'S STUDENT (BME)
SYBORGS Project: Space Synthetic Biology
bielaa [-at-] ufl.edu
BACHELOR'S STUDENT (MAE)
SYBORGS Project: Synthetic Biology
s.hanna [-at-] ufl.edu
BACHELOR'S STUDENT (BME)
2026 Emerging Scholar
SYBORGS Project: Controlling Positive Dynamical Biomolecular Systems
maria.karas [-at-] ufl.edu
BACHELOR'S STUDENT (Health Science)
SYBORGS Project: Regulating Inflammation-Mediated Coagulopathy
zoeylevinson [-at-] ufl.edu
BACHELOR'S STUDENT (MAE)
SYBORGS Project: Regulating Inflammation-Mediated Coagulopathy
jennamoore [-at-] ufl.edu
BACHELOR'S STUDENT (BME)
SYBORGS Project: Space Synthetic Biology
mosinski [-at-] ufl.edu
BACHELOR'S STUDENT (MAE)
SYBORGS Project: Space Biosystems Engineering
cvetrovec [-at-] ufl.edu
BACHELOR'S STUDENT (ABE)
SYBORGS Project: Space Synthetic Biology
siwon.woo [-at-] ufl.edu
Postdocs and Ph.D. Students
Jithran Ekanayake (ABE, Ph.D. 2025; now: Postdoctoral Associate at University of Florida)
Damon E. Ghetmiri (MAE, Ph.D. 2021; now: Senior Source Performance Engineer - EUV Technology at ASML)
Soumyajit Sen Gupta (MAE, Postdoc 2018-2021; now: Assistant Professor at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)
Amanda E. Shick (MAE, Ph.D. 2025, Best MAE Dissertation 2026; now: ORISE Fellow at FDA)
Anya Volter (BME, Ph.D. 2026)
Other Alumni
Oren B. Anderson (MAE, Undergraduate)
Edward A. Beck (MAE, Undergraduate)
Alexander J. Benvenuti (MAE, Undergraduate)
Vincent R. Celano (ABE, Undergraduate)
Cameron G. Celeste (BME, Undergraduate)
Matthew D. Chertok (ChE, Undergraduate)
Caroline M. Cook (REU 2022; and Lab Manager 2023-2024)
Allison C. Donald (MAE, Undergraduate)
Saige R. Drecksler (MAE, Undergraduate)
Jonathan Dudkin (Lambert High School, Summer 2021)
Isabella Eby (MAE, Undergraduate)
Nicholas A. Eisman (MAE, Undergraduate)
Abigail L. Franck (MAE, Undergraduate)
Gabriel K. Gilvary (MAE, Undergraduate)
Martina Gulì (Exchange from Università di Bologna, Master's)
Meghan L. Jones (Microbiology and Cell Science, Undergraduate)
Alexander J. Kamentz (MAE, Master's)
Abigail M. Lopa (MAE, Undergraduate)
Cameron P. Lott (MAE, Undergraduate)
Hanna Louth (BME, Undergraduate)
Pablo Luna (Biology, Undergraduate)
Abhinav Malhotra (BME, Undergraduate)
Allen V. Martinez (MAE, Undergraduate)
Catherine M. Martinez (MAE, Undergraduate)
Robert B. Martinez (MAE, Master's; and Lab Manager 2018-2020)
Justin T. McCauley (BME, Undergraduate)
Mario L. Molina (ABE, Undergraduate)
Vera Monlux (Biology, Undergraduate)
Olivia E. Norenberg (BME, Undergraduate)
Sharad Patel (BME, Undergraduate)
Miguel E. Perez Blanco (Biology, Undergraduate)
Srikusumanjali Pinnamareddy (Lambert High School, Summer 2021)
Wyatt C. Powell (MAE, Undergraduate)
Steven Robles Blasini (BME, Undergraduate)
Tejassvittaa Sahu (BME, Master's)
Maya Shamash (Biology, Undergraduate; and Lab Technician 2025-2026)
Joseph G. Shipman (MAE, Undergraduate)
Ethan D. Shover (Computer Science, Undergraduate)
Nathaniel G. Smith (MAE, Master's)
Valeria Urrego-Hernandez (MAE, Undergraduate)
Alessia J. Venturi (MAE, Undergraduate)
Connor B. Watson (Computer Science, Undergraduate)
Michelle Wu (MAE, Undergraduate)
Jacob D. York (Sustainability and the Built Environment, Undergraduate)