California Institute of Technology
Dept. of Biology and Biological Engineering
Breanna is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Biology at Caltech. She received her bachelor’s degree in Cellular & Molecular Biology from Princeton University. She is currently researching preservation methods of cellular life in brine systems and methods to extract biogenic evidence. Breanna’s projects include microbial assessment of nucleic acids and proteins in hypersaline systems, measurements of microbial communities in Li-enriched brine systems, and Raman spectroscopy of preserved cellular life.