Individual Members

Matthew Bennett

The research in my lab spans the boundary between theoretical and experimental synthetic biology. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of gene regulation – from small-scale interactions such as […]

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Bryan Davies

Research in my laboratory explores microbial behavior important for improving human and agricultural health and performance. We study processes that enable microbes to engage with each other and their host, […]

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Laura Segatori

Laura Segatori is an Associate Professor in Bioengineering at Rice University. She received a Laurea in Industrial Biotechnology from the University of Bologna in Italy in 2000 and a PhD […]

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Megan McClean

Megan McClean is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also a trainer in the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, the Biophysics Graduate Program, and […]

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Alejandro Chavez

Alejandro (Alex) Chavez, M.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University. He did his M.D., Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, his residency in […]

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Patrick Shih

Patrick M. Shih, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at UC Davis and the Director of Plant Biosystems Design at the Joint BioEnergy Institute. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley […]

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Jeff Hasty

Jeff Hasty received his Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997, where he learned how to do science from his advisor Kurt Wiesenfeld. He was subsequently […]

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Domitilla Del Vecchio

Domitilla Del Vecchio received the Ph. D. degree in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering (Automation) from the […]

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Mikhail Shapiro

Mikhail Shapiro is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and an Investigator of the Heritage Medical Research Institute at Caltech. He received his PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT and his […]

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Gavin Williams

Dr. Williams received his B.Sc. with First Class Honors from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth (1998) and a Ph.D. in chemical biology from the University of Leeds, England (2002). […]

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Jeffrey Barrick

Dr. Jeffrey E. Barrick is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences and a member of the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He […]

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Ranjan Srivastava

Ranjan Srivastava is Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Additionally, he holds appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Engineering. He […]

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Sang Yup Lee

Dr. Sang Yup Lee is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is currently the Dean of KAIST […]

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Arthur Prindle

Arthur received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Caltech and a PhD in Bioengineering from UCSD. As a Simons-Helen Hay Whitney Fellow in the Süel Laboratory at UCSD, he developed […]

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Betul Kacar

Betul Kacar (Betül Kaçar) is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona Departments of Cell Biology and Astronomy She is also an associate professor at Earth-Life Science Institute of […]

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Chris Voigt

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Ken Oye

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Sri Kosuri

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Farren Isaacs

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Nigel Mouncey

Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 20-year history. After stints as a senior research scientist in molecular biology at Roche […]

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