GeneFence
A small project with one honest goal.
Make it a little easier — and safer — to explore cleaning up pollution with engineered microbes.
GeneFence started with a student curious about using engineered bacteria to break down pollutants, and bothered that most tools skip the obvious risk: that the microbes, or their genes, escape. So this one puts safety in the same answer. The science came from her; the software from her dad.
Lelani Laruelle
Incoming UC Berkeley student in Molecular & Cell Biology, and a two-time California High Jump Champion. Interested in GMO research for bioremediation — done responsibly.
Frederic Laruelle
Lelani's dad. Turned the idea into working, hosted software.
This isn't a breakthrough, and it isn't a product — it's a small, student-led tool. GeneFence proposes and ranks ideas; it doesn't certify anything, and every result is a hypothesis for the wet lab. If it saves someone an afternoon of dead ends, that's enough.