(summer 2009)
Saum was a high school researcher in the lab during the summer of 2009. He was from College Station A&M Consolidated High School and as of 2010 was an undergraduate student at UC, Berkeley.
Saum worked on the cloning of the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate gene from the B race of B. braunii.
Saum went on to the University of California, Berkeley and has since graduated.