Elizabeth Onderko, PhD
Invented the bioreactor platform at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow. PhD Chemistry, Penn State.
Andrew Magyar, PhD
PhD Materials Science, MIT. Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard. Former Principal Scientist at Draper Laboratory leading large-scale R&D programs.
Alex Chapeaux, PhD
PhD Chemical Engineering, U. of Notre Dame. Capital-efficient scaling of biomanufacturing operations at C16 Biosciences, Every, and now Capra.
Mark Poole, PhD
PhD Bio Eng, NC State. Founder of kombucha brewery IngenuiTea. Has helped build companies in both fermentation and software.
Timothy Wannier, PhD
Former founder in industrial biotech, at Wild Microbes, with deep experience taking platforms from lab to market. PhD in Biology, Caltech.
Julia Leonard, PhD
PhD Bioengineering, George Mason. PI on Capra’s DARPA DUF program.
Ryan Bing, PhD
PhD Chemical Eng, NC State. PI on Capra’s DARPA Switch program.
Faras Ali
BS George Mason. Automated instrumentation systems for bioreactor operation.
Melissa Call
Builds, tests, and characterizes the production strains that move from the strain group into Capra’s reactors.
Ryan Granché, MS
Started at Capra as an intern, left for an MS at UC Berkeley, and came back. Now technical lead on the HHS-funded CoMPASS project.
Bonnie Harper, MS
Runs the lab — assay development, analytics, and the wet-chemistry workflows behind strain and product QC.
Jenny Manuel-White
Runs program management across Capra’s active product lines, keeping development, production, and partners in sync.
Anthony McBride, MS
Keeps the Sterling facility running — utilities, infrastructure, and the day-to-day site work that production depends on.
Brianna McKinney
Works across metabolic engineering and biomanufacturing on seed train, strain testing, and reactor operation.
Stephanie Molina, MS
Builds and optimizes the genetic constructs that turn hosts into production organisms.
Ananya Pemaraj
Works in the process group, focused on scale-up modeling for Capra’s active programs.
Nathaniel White, BS
Keeps production reactors running, sampled, and on-spec around the clock.
Doug Cameron, PhD
Former Chief Science Advisor, Khosla Ventures. Former Director at Cargill. Pioneer of industrial biotech.
Sarah Glaven, PhD
Former Principal Assistant Director, Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing, White House OSTP.
Jeff Uhrig, MBA
Former CEO, Novomer. Former CEO, Sirrus. Deep scaling & commercialization expertise.