Andres Dextre is a Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Dr. Daniel Fletcher as part of the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint PhD Program in Bioengineering. His research involves leveraging CRISPR-Cas enzymes for developing novel molecular diagnostics that we can employ at the Point-of-Care for infectious diseases. Andres received his Bachelor’s degree in Biological Engineering from Purdue University. During that time, he worked with Dr. Mohit Verma developing paperbased molecular diagnostics for detecting SARS-CoV-2 and bovine respiratory disease associated pathogens. As a Thomas C. Alber fellow, Andres is focusing on developing a CRISPR-based assay for detection of micro-RNAs in Schistosomiasis derived extracellular vesicles.