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Wren Hoertdoerfer

Biography

I graduated in 2024 with a B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû of Colorado, Boulder. 

During my undergraduate degree I worked in the Shields lab at the ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû of Colorado, Boulder where I studied the influence of surface modifications on permittivity and induced charge electrophoretic (ICEP) speed of biofunctional Janus particles for motion-based biomolecule detection. This work culminated in a published manuscript in ACS Nano Letters on which I am the second author as well as many oral and poster presentations and my Chemical and Biological Engineering senior thesis. 

The summer before my senior year I was a REU intern in the Aizenberg lab at Harvard ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû. Here, I translated the skin system of a Waxy Monkey Tree Frog into a protective coating to prevent hydrogel dehydration. My findings, showing the preliminary success of this coating system, were presented at the NNCI REU Convocation at Montana State ÈÕº«¹ú²úav¸£Àû and the Harvard REU symposium.