Past Residents
Coalesce generally accepts 4–6 residents per academic year. Residents have access to dedicated laboratory space and equipment, the opportunity to form mentorships with UB faculty in the life sciences, and are provided the creative space and technical support to study genomic and microbiomic concepts.
2023-24
Karolina Żyniewicz: Signs of the Times. Collecting Biological Traces and Memories
Tansy Xiao: LUCA (the Last Universal Common Ancestor)
daniela brill estrada: Living Alive Life Like
Walker Tufts: Pickles & Concrete
Emma Akmakdjian: Borderline between Psychosis & Creativity: Three Generations of Artistic Inheritance
2022-23
Alvaro Azcárraga: Huitlacoche
Brianna Leatherbury: Model Organisms
Tatiana Istomina: Drosophila melanogaster
2021-22
Rae Yuping Hsu: How Many Citizens are Living in this Body?
Tosca Terán: Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis
Julian Stadon & Roland van Dierendonck: Feel your Fermented Biome
Patrick Ravines: Project Electrophoresis
Jason E. Geistweidt: (|21(|<3']['5: Experimental inquiries into computational insect behavior
Laura Marris: The Age of Loneliness: An Atlas of Extremes
Jean-Charles de Quillacq: Corporeal Commons
Wafaa Bilal: In a Grain of Wheat
Lucy Helton: SCOBY
2020-21
Phylum (Carlos Castellanos, Johnny DiBlasi, Bello Bello), Beauty
Reza Safavi, One Cell Wanderings: Glacial Microbiota
Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin, The Vegetarian
Darya Warner, High Vibes Plant Retreat
Tiare Ribeaux and Ruth Schmidt, Microbial Scents and Olfactory Prosthesis for the Future
2019-20
Sun Young Kang & Jack Tseng
Laura Splan, Permeations
Cesar & Lois Collective, Thinking within Ecosystems: Collective Cell Consciousness
Zeelie Brown, The World’s Most Beautiful Septic Tank
2018-19
Iman Person, Second Skin
Sam Van Aken, The Tibertine Tree
Andrea Reynosa, Fox Fire: Overlay 2.0
Josh Archer and Chris Copeland, Metabolic Raceway
Virocode, RENATURED
2017-18
Heather Dewey-Hagborg, T3511
Mick Lorusso and Joel Ong, Umwelt Microbiana
Moira Williams, Fermented Freedom
Rian Hammond, Open Source Gendercodes
Sabrina Merayo Nuñez, Humans as a trees
Günes-Hélène Isitan, Spill Your Guts
2016-17
Nicole Clouston, "Soil"
Heather Dewey-Hagborg, “SELL/BIO”
Kathy High, "Gut Love"
Timo Menke, Radical Human-Plant Donation
Byron Rich and Mary Tsang, "Open Source Estrogen"
Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess, Metabolic Currencies
2015-16
Gary Nickard, “Miller/Urey Redux”
Zbigniew Oksiuta, “New Soil - New Building Material”
Paul Vanouse, “Labor”