We are a group of highly dedicated and motivated individuals working to combine micro and molecular biology with robotics. We, at HyDRA, are a research group working on long-term projects, with the goal of presenting and publishing our findings.
Our current project, the Hydroponics Dynamic Reduction Apparatus, or HyDRA, is working to engineer bacteria and hydroponic systems to create a better indoor, fully automated plant growth machine.
This project has three main components:
1. Create a fully automated, sensor wielding hydroponics system.
2. Engineer aquatic bacteria to express plant promoting genes within that system.
3. Engineer a microbial sensor to detect possible pathogens and our modified bacteria within the system.
We welcome collaborations with enthusiastic undergraduate students, professors, and graduate students interested in this field, and are open to feedback on our design! Please email Claire Murphy (ctmurphy@uwaterloo) and CC Sofia Rizzo (s2rizzo@uwaterloo.ca) for any inquiries.
Claire Murphy
Team Lead
Vicente Garrido
Software Lead
Braeden MacDougall
Hardware Lead
Annabelle Wicentowich
Laboratory
Darius Nguyen
Laboratory
Felicia Nguyen
Lab
Fatima Varela
Lab
Daniel Sun
Software
Vansh Sethi
Software
Jaming Zhao
Software
Shyamaleeswari Dayanandan
Hardware
Joshua Bell
Hardware
Anh Mai
Hardware
Camilo Llanto
Hardware
Anura Chandren
Hardware
