User:Dileep D. Monie
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Contact Info
- Dileep D. Monie
- Johns Hopkins University
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Email me through OpenWetWare
I work in the Wilmer Eye Institute at the JHU School of Medicine. I learned about OpenWetWare from the 24C3 Endy lecture, and I've joined because I am interested in contributing to the BBF Technical Standards.
Research Interests
- Synthetic Biology
- Standards - Establishing standards for biological parts to ensure interoperability and allow for construction of complex systems
- Epigenetics - Manipulating chromatin structures with histone and DNA modifications as a form of biological software programming
- Biocircuits - Designing devices and chassis for cellular computation and communications
- Bioengineering
- Immunology - Defining the theoretical framework and designing components for an artificial immune system
- Astrobiology - Engineering energy pathways and lifeforms sustainable in extreme environments
- Biocomputing - Integrating logic biocircuits on a very large scale in single cell and multicellular systems
- Biosecurity and Biosafety
- Policy - Balancing the needs of an open hacker community with access restrictions
- Testing and Certification - Establishing an "Underwriters Laboratories" for developing standards and test procedures for biosafety
- Countermeasures - Creating fail-safe mechanisms to mitigate potential synthetic biology abuses
Current Projects
My wet lab contributions are documented in my OWW Notebook.