Season 2 Episode 3: Meet Chris Kuffner

Chris Kuffner has been a longtime BioBuilder -- starting in high school at Acton-Boxborough  High School in Massachusetts almost a decade ago, and now he serves as a BioBuilderClub mentor and workshop instructor. He pursued his early interest in synthetic biology at University of Maryland, where he participated in the hardware track of iGEM. His team engineered a -80 freezer that could be built from component parts that cost less than 10% of the commercial versions of the lab equipment. Chris is now at Boston University pursuing his PhD in BioEngineering. His thesis work is exploring ways to visualize RNA in real time inside living cells. Learn more about BioBuilder's programs for students, educators, and industry professionals here 👉 https://biobuilder.org/And follow BioBuilder on social media: https://www.facebook.com/BioBuilderFoundation/https://twitter.com/SystemsSallyhttps://www.youtube.com/@BioBuilderhttps://www.instagram.com/systems_sally/https://www.linkedin.com/company/16132078