Welcome to the Synthetic Biology and Microbiome Engineering Laboratory
We do systems and synthetic biology research at different scales. At the subcellular scale, we do
cell-free synthetic biology, including the development of gene circuits as well as efforts to make cell-free protein expression systems robust for field applications. At the multicellular scale, we engineer
cell-cell communication to coordinate the behavior of cell populations for pattern formation, biomaterial fabrication, and sophisticated biosensing. At the multi-species scale, we probe the spatial and taxonomic structure of the microbiome and leverage synthetic biology tools to study microbiome principles and, ultimately, develop applications in
microbiome engineering.
