Affiliation: University of Tennessee

Tayler Schimel is a researcher at the Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology at the University of Tennessee. She obtained her PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the same University in 2020. During her PhD, she focused on engineering platforms for plant synthetic biology, primarily microfluidic devices single cell analysis and a laser imaging system for stand-off detection of fluorescent protein expression in whole plants. Nowadays, her research focuses on machine learning for identifying and assessing the viability of human parasites and evaluating potential inactivation methods.