University of California Davis
PROJECTS | 2021
GREEN-95
Claire Chung, Rory Greenhalgh, Emma Smith, Raj Jagannath
GREEN-95 is an eco-friendly alternative design to the N95 mask. Derived from shellfish and crop waste products, the mask is biodegradable and aims to filter 95 percent of airborne particulates.
Finalist Team
BioInvasion
Allison Cirka, Carson Cable, Emily Arana, Sonia Bhaskaran
The project investigates alternative solutions to ecosystem imbalance caused by non-native species.
PreDiaSense
Laura Yien, Alicia Hans, Martin Kim, and Sarika Sethi
PreDiaSense is a saliva-based biodegradable prediabetes risk test.
InstructorS - 2021
Marc Facciotti
Marc Facciotti is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Genomics at UC Davis. He is interested in the building of, for, and with biological systems. In particular, the Facciotti Lab seeks to understand biological organizational principles occurring at the cellular, molecular, and genetic scales.
Elizabeth Marley
Elizabeth Marley is design researcher and lecturer at UC Davis focused on growing building materials and developing modes for interspecies collaboration, especially as it relates to material culture, environmental management, and bioremediation. With a background in architecture that took root at SCI-Arc, her work has stretched beyond architecture to include design at all scales—microbial habitats, modular product design, renewable energy systems, and design for participatory public spaces. Elizabeth has an MFA in design from UC Davis. She has an accomplished design practice with completed projects and affiliations of interdisciplinary works with government agencies, private clients, and cultural institutions such as the Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Stanford University’s Anderson Collection, Black Rock Arts Foundation, the city of San Francisco, and the city of Oakland. She has more recently been a resident at the San Francisco Autodesk Technology Center in collaboration with the CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab.
Dave Furlow
Dave Furlow is a professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior and the Director of the University Honors Program at UC Davis. He researches topics in the molecular basis of hormone action, particularly during development, the analysis of gene expression programs during morphogenesis, and genome editing in model organisms, particularly applied to nuclear hormone receptor function.