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Ilenne Del Valle is a postdoctoral researcher in the Eckert lab at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She earned a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from UC Chile and her Ph.D. in the Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology program at Rice University in the Silberg (Biosciences) and Masiello (Earth Sciences) labs. Her research studies plant-microbe-soil interactions using synthetic biology tools for sustainable biofuel production.