Oliver received his B.S. in the neurosciences from the University of California, Riverside. He is now in the biology graduate program at the California Institute of Technology, and is working towards earning a doctorate of philosophy. Oliver is investigating the role of mitochondrial genetics in diseases affecting this organelle, and is also trying to develop techniques for manipulating the mitochondrial genome. Douglas Yung, California Institute of Technology Douglas Yung earned a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Caltech, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from UCLA. He received the NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship and is currently working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. His research focuses on photonics, biosensor development, microfluidics, molecular & environmental microbiology, as well as astrobiology. He maintains the website and taught biostatistics, network circuitry, and neuronal modeling in the 2008 YESS program. Sindhuja Kadambi, California Institute of Technology Sindhuja received her B.S. in Genetics from the Rutgers University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. work at Caltech, studying glutamate gated chloride channels using electrophysiology. Paul Lee, California Institute of Technology Paul received his B.S. in Chemistry in 2003 from Dartmouth College. He is currently working on his Ph.D. work at Caltech, studying the response of DNA to oxidative damage.
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