2015-16 Women's Swimming and Diving
Biography
Honors
Caltech Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2015-16)
Academic All-SCIAC (Winter 2013-14, 2015-16)
2015-16
TOP TIMES
- 50 Free: 35.40 SCIAC Championships
- 100 Free: 1:18.50 SCIAC Championships
- 200 Free: 3:10.61 Caltech vs. Mills
- 100 Breast: 1:54.78 Caltech vs. Mills
Research and STEM activities
Investigating the functionality of the valinomycin biosythetic gene cluster in cell-free TX-TL extract...Worked on various projects involving biomolecular gene circuits and a cell-free E. coli transcription-translation (TX-TL) system with Dr. Richard M. Murray over the past three years, including a SURF project the summer after her sophomore year the results of which have contributed to a published paper (cited below).
Publications: Siegal-Gaskins D, Franco E, Zhou T, and Murray RM. "An analytical approach to bistable biological cicruit discrimination using real algebraic geometry." J.R. Soc. Interface. 2015. 12(108).
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0288. Published 24 June 2015.
Prior to Caltech
Played two years of tennis for head coach Ed Dong...Was the No. 2 singles player her sophomore year.
Personal
Born in San Francisco, Calif....Daughter of William and Elaine...Has one younger sister, Tricia.
