Nate Cira - Principal Investigator

Nate completed undergraduate majors in biomedical engineering, biology, biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. He received his masters in 2013 and his PhD in 2017 from Stanford University where he was a member of the Quake lab. He has worked on projects involving microbiology, microfluidic devices, community ecology, capillarity and wetting, and network theory. He was an Evans Scholar, NSF GRFP Recipient, and a Siebel Scholar. He started the Cira lab as a Rowland Fellow at the Rowland Institute in late 2017. ​

Lab Members

Samira Shiri - Postdoc

Samira joined the lab in July 2019 and works on leveraging the interaction of liquids and surfaces for developing high throughput liquid handling devices. Samira completed her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University in the group of James Bird in 2019. 

Nkazi Nchinda - Undergraduate researcher

Nkazi is a Harvard undergraduate majoring in biomedical engineering. He is developing methods and using them to search for microbes belonging to undiscovered taxa. ​

Dieter Baumgartner - Visiting masters student

Dieter is completing a year of research in the lab. His project involves understanding surface tension driven flows in multi-component droplets. He joins from ETH Zurich where he completed his undergraduate studies. 

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