Individual Members

Lin Su

Dr. Lin Su is a Lecturer in Engineering Biology at the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. Prior to this role, he served as a […]

Sonja Billerbeck

Sonja Billerbeck studied Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, completing her Master’s thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Protein Evolution Department, Lab of Andrei […]

Abigail Stringer

Joanna Tannous

Joanna Tannous is an associate staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, USA, where she works within the Synthetic Biology group of the Biosciences Division and the […]

Yalin Li

I am an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University. My research integrates experimental and computational approaches to enhance the sustainability of water and energy systems and […]

Nicholas Sandoval

Nicholas Sandoval is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Tulane University. Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. Sandoval was a postdoctoral researcher in the […]

Robert Speight

Dr Robert Speight is Director of the Advanced Engineering Biology (AEB) Future Science Platform (FSP) at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency. CSIRO works with […]

Sara Molinari

Dr. Sara Molinari graduated from the Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology Ph.D. program at Rice University with a thesis on programming differentiation in bacteria. This work enabled the creation of […]

Wheaton Schroeder

Wheaton Schroeder is a new Assistant Professor at Washington State University in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering (started in August 2024). His research lab specializes in computational […]

Leopold Green

Leo Green is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University. His research program converges DNA nanotechnology, microbiome engineering, and computational models to design bacterial theanostics.

James Saenz

Research Summary My lab’s research merges my unique background in geochemistry and microbiology and my interest in synthetic biology and bioengineering to unravel and harness the role of lipids in […]

George Church

Harvard PhD 1984. Professor at Harvard & MIT 1986, co-author of 716 papers, 164 patent publications & book “Regenesis”; developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) & 10M-fold […]

P. C. Dave P. Dingal

My research focuses on the interplay between extrinsic and intrinsic signals that affect cell behavior by building cutting-edge molecular tools to measure and perturb such signals. Most molecular tools are […]

Erin Garza

Dr. Garza received her master’s and PhD in microbiology from Northern Illinois University. Her graduate work involved genetically engineering biofuel pathways, like homoethanol and butanol, into Escherichia coli. Dr. Garza […]

Christian Cuba Samaniego

I received my BS degree in Mechatronic Eng. from National University of Engineering (UNI-Peru). I obtained my PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Riverside (UCR) under the […]

Michaelle Mayalu

Dr. Michaëlle N. Mayalu is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. She received her Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was […]

Virginia Cornish

Virginia W. Cornish is the Helena Rubinstein Chair in the Department of Chemistry and a founding member of the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University. Her research brings together […]

Alexander Vlahos

Alexander Vlahos is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently a Human Frontier Science Program Fellow in the […]

Otto Cordero

Otto X. Cordero received a B.S. in computer and electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Ecuador, an M.Sc. in artificial intelligence from Utrecht University, and a Ph.D. in theoretical […]

Maobing Tu

Dr Maobing Tu is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He received his PhD degree in Forestry Bioenergy at the University […]