Applicants
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Taylor Nichols
Taylor is an accomplished scientist and engineer with over a decade of experience across academia and industry developing strategic research initiatives, managing collaborative projects, and driving technical project management. As the Director of Research for Northwestern University’s Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB), her responsibilities include working with CSB leadership, faculty, and staff to help grow the research capacity of the Center and provide strategic direction for new research endeavors and partnerships. She also contributes to long-term planning in support of the Center’s education, research, and outreach missions. Taylor holds a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Northwestern University where she worked in the lab of Danielle Tullman-Ercek. Her dissertation research focused on engineering bacterial microcompartments (MCPs) for the encapsulation of non-native metabolic pathways, notably developing a genomic integration platform to control cargo encapsulation in MCPs. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Biochemical Engineering at Northeastern University.