Shreya Thiagarajan, a Bay Area native, is a rising senior at Westwood High School in Austin,
Texas. While living in the Bay Area, she was a member of the community lab BioCurious,
carrying out two of her own projects on the progression of ALS and antibiotic resistance as well
as participating in the lab’s project on biological sunblock synthesis, which was awarded the
bronze medal in the 2015 iGEM jamboree. In Austin, she interns at two laboratories at the
University of Texas at Austin working on a gene editing therapeutics project aimed at curing
cystic fibrosis and a psychopathology project studying the basic behavior of slime molds. She
can be contacted via email at shreyathiagarajan00@gmail.com.