User:Laurens Kraal

Contact Info

 * Laurens Kraal
 * UCSF
 * Biological and Medical Informatics Program
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

Labs

 * Kortemme & Fischbach Labs, UCSF, San Francisco, CA USA
 * Church lab, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
 * Plasterk & Ketting labs, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands
 * Immunodynamics lab of Professor Masayuki Miyasaka, Osaka University, Japan

Academic Interests

 * Synthetic Biology
 * Microbiology
 * Bioinformatics
 * Systems Biology
 * Quantitative Biology
 * Bioengineering
 * Genome Engineering
 * Genome Optimization
 * (Meta)genomics
 * Behavior
 * Artificial Intelligence
 * Robotics
 * Data Visualization
 * Microfluidics

Education

 * PhD: Integrative Program in Quantitative Biology (iPQB) at UCSF (in progress)
 * MSc: Biomedical Sciences - Cancer Genomics and Developmental Biology (cangendev) from Utrecht University, the Netherlands
 * BSc: Molecular Biology from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands
 * BA: Theoretical Philosophy from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Publications

 * Isaacs FJ, Carr PA, Wang HH, Lajoie MJ,Sterling B, Kraal L, Tolonen A, Gianoulis T, Goodman D, Reppas NB, Emig CJ, Bang D, Hwang SJ, Jewett MC, Jacobson JM, Church GM (2011) Precise Manipulation of Chromosomes in vivo Enables Genome-wide Codon Replacement (Science, in press)