Profiles

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 […]

Jonathan Klonowski

Jonathan is a policy postdoctoral researcher at the Engineering Biology Research Consortium focusing on biosecurity and simulating the bioeconomy. Earning is PhD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, […]

Sana Zakaria

Sana Zakaria is a Research Leader, and a Global RAND Scholar working emerging technologies and their intersection. Her work focusses on assessing the societal and biosecurity implications of technological advancement, […]

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 […]

Chris Vaiana

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 […]

Johnathan O’Neil

Johnathan is a postdoctoral scholar at the Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC). He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Tech, where his research centered on the […]

Elizabeth Allen

Elizabeth is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran who served for 12 years as a Food Service Officer. She joined EBRC as a Senior Administrator in August 2024 and brings extensive […]

Garrett Dunlap

Dr. Garrett Dunlap joined EBRC as Associate Director of Policy & International Engagement in September 2024. Before this, he was Head of Science and Innovation at the British Consulate-General in […]

Jaya Joshi

Jaya Joshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Wood Science, Bioproducts, and Bioengineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research walks through enzyme design […]

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 […]

Luis Joel Figueroa-Yáñez

PhD. Luis Joel Figueroa-Yáñez is Researcher class A, repatriated, belongs to the National System of Researchers (Level I), assigned to the Center for Research and Assistance in Technology and Design […]

Sebastian Rivera

Sebastian Rivera is a Program Manager at the Engineering Biology Research Consortium, focusing on AIxBio and Security. Prior to EBRC, he was a NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Fellow at 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 […]

Jonathan Conway

Dr. Jonathan Conway earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University under the […]