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Synthetic Biology

The lab's long term goal is to make biology easy to engineer. Our research is largely student-initiated and driven. Students have joined the lab from a wide-range of backgrounds, including biology, chemistry, english, mathematics, physics, and all fields of engineering. Reading our dissertations and research papers is a great way to learn about the sort of work that the lab has been able to support, and provides good background and introductory materials as well as glimpses of future ideas and directions. You'll find that the lab has a strong interest in foundational technology development, that we pursue both experimental and theoretical work, and that we are interested in the applications of biological technologies too. If you are searching for a passionate place to work on a new (or old) research idea that's relevant to synthetic biology then we would very much like to hear from you.

PhD Students

Jason Kelly (2008, TBA)
Barry Canton (2008, TBA)
Samantha Sutton (2008 PhD, TBA)
Ty Thomson (2008 PhD, moving to Epitome Biosystems)
Reshma Shetty (2008 PhD, w/ Tom Knight, TBA)
- Applying engineering principles to the design and construction of transcriptional devices (Dissertation)
- Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick pats (Research Paper)
Sri Kosuri (2007 PhD, now at a very low-profile biotechnology startup)
- Simulation, models, and refactoring of bacteriophage T7 gene expression (Dissertation)
- Refactoring Bacteriophage T7 (Research Paper)
- TABASCO: A single molecule, base-pair resolved gene expression simulator (Research Paper)
- Measures and models of bacteriophage T7 gene expression (in preparation, Research Paper)