Edwin Gonzalez shares his journey from a BioBuilder apprentice to becoming a lead scientific support specialist at Thermo Fisher by age 23, highlighting how hands-on experiences and mentorship shaped his career path.

Dev Gupta shares how early curiosity, nurtured by family and hands-on projects like the BioBuilderClub, inspired his path into interdisciplinary science and technology. He and his co-founder Joshua Reljac discuss their startup AIVON and its flagship product, MediSense—an AI-powered diagnostic tool aimed at transforming healthcare with real-time, user-friendly symptom analysis

Nicole Mumbi is a former BioBuilder Apprentice who is now studying Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UMass Amherst

Greg is a senior at Emory University with plans to enter the Biomedical Engineering PhD program at Boston University this fall

Daniel teaches BioBuilder at Hamden Hall in Connecticut

Nico was a BioBuilder Apprenticeship who interned at Boston University and lead a HS iGEM team

Nathan joined BioBuilder’s Summer Research Program as a high school junior and is now an intern at Conduit

Vanessa is a BioTechBuilder Apprentice interning at Dana Farber this summer

Hana is a BioBuilderClub student heading to MIT next year

Billy is integrating BioBuilder into BioSTEM at Volunteer HS in Tennessee

Susana was a BioBuilder Apprentice in high school and is now an associate scientist at Aurion Biotech

Tara was a BioBuilder Apprentice in high school and is now a research scientist at Novartis

Yesenia led a BioBuilderClub at Tyngsborough HS and is now a Georgia Tech freshman

Amanda and Evie teach biology at Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, Tennessee

Rachael is a former Apprentice, Indigo Ag intern, now at UMass Lowell

Lyle is a sophomore at Dobyns-Bennet High School in Kingsport, TN

Jacob is a bioengineering undergrad at Rice University

Presley is an 11th grader at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School and a BioBuilder Student Ambassador

Jo-Anne is a teacher at Westborough High School

Veni is a student at Columbia University and a former BioBuilderClub student

Geneva is a sophomore at Northeastern University and a BioBuilder Summer intern

Dave is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Missouri University of Science and Technology

Rebekah is a teacher at Tyngsborough High School and BioBuilder Board Member

Oscar is a biology major at the University of Massachusetts – Lowell

Nancy is a former BioBuilder Apprentice and now a research assistant at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston

Chris is a bioengineering PhD student at Boston University

Jenny is a creative who runs her own business. She helped design and develop the first BioBuilder website

Karen is a creative director, designer, and artist who uses her skill set to promote scientific awareness

Angela is a Senior at Emmanuel College majoring in biology and secondary education. She is a 2017 alum of BioBuilder’s Apprenticeship

Rebecca helps global companies solve critical strategy and marketing problems

Karen is a legal and healthcare executive, entrepreneur, and business development leader

Amin is an electrical engineer and an associate professor at California State University Chico

Kevin is a BioBuilder Apprentice and a first generation Salvadoran-American. He is now studying chemical engineering and biochemistry at Tufts University

Lindsey is an award winning biotechnology teacher at Andover High School near Boston who leads a groundbreaking BioBuilderClub

David has championed synbio teaching at SUIS, to international recognition through iGEM

Viggy just graduated from Westborough High School. This fall he will study Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

After learning about synthetic biology as a high school student, Michael earned a bioE undergrad degree and is now pursuing his PhD in the field

Jude teaches with BioBuilder at the Taipei American School, leading their high school iGEM team to multiple championships

Katie is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Williams College whose interest in teaching and science communication led her to BioBuilder

Meet our host, Zeeshan Siddiqui

Julie is the founder of Amino Bio. She discusses her entrepreneurial path and the challenges she sees in global education