Profiles

Lauren Rajakovich

Lauren received her B.S. in Chemistry from Wake Forest University in 2011, working in the laboratory of Patricia Dos Santos. Lauren earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology […]

Daniela Matias de Carvalho Bittencourt

Dr. Daniela Matias de C. Bittencourt is a researcher at Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology and an adjunct researcher at the J. Craig Venter Institute. With over 17 years of […]

Ashty Karim

Ashty Karim is an assistant professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. With a foundation in chemical engineering and synthetic biology, he has worked in cell-free systems for […]

Pavel Dvořák

Pavel Dvořák, Ph.D. He is currently an associate professor at Masaryk University (MUNI), Brno, Czech Republic, and group leader at the Microbial Bioengineering Laboratory (MBL). Pavel Dvořák is a molecular […]

James Coker

James Coker is the Director of the Center for Biotechnology Education, which is a part of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. As a Professor […]

Kyle Lauersen

Dr. Kyle J. Lauersen is an Associate Professor (effective July 1, 2025) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. His group is named Sustainable […]

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 […]

Vinoo Selvarajah

I head iGEM’s Technology Program where I develop new technology-related initiatives and resources, while also supporting existing iGEM ones. I am also interested in what are the key enabling technologies […]

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 […]

Rixin Zhang

Tackle resource competition problems in synthetic biology, aiming to restore gene circuits’ modularity and build robust gene circuits.

sadikshya rijal

Sadikshya Rijal is pursuing her PhD in biological design from Arizona State University. She is affiliated with Dr. Xiaojun Tian’s lab, which focuses on resource allocation of gene circuits and […]

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 […]

Bojing Jiang

Bojing Jiang is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, with a focus on developing protein-based materials for biomedical and environmental applications. Her research integrates […]

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.