This seminar will be held virtually – Zoom link coming soon.

The engineering of Biology presents infinite opportunities for therapeutic design, diagnosis, and prevention of disease.  We use what we know from Nature to engineer systems with predictable behaviors.  We also seek to discover new natural strategies to then re-engineer.  I will present concepts and experiments that address how we approach these problems in a systematic way.  Conceptually, we seek to both design cells and proteins to control disease states and to detect and predict the severity of emerging pathogens.  For example, we have engineered components of the gut microbiome to act therapeutics for infectious disease, proteins to prolong cell states, living pathogen sensors and high throughput analysis to predict immune response of emerging viruses.