Faculty

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Dr. Mary Dunlop

Associate Professor
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 2008
M.S. California Institute of Technology, 2004
B.S.E. Princeton University, 2002

Full CV [PDF]

 

Postdoctoral Scholars

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Razan Alnahhas

Ph.D. Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, 2019
B.S. Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 2014

Virgile Andreani

Ph.D. Computational Biology, École Polytechnique (Paris Saclay University), 2020
M.S. Theoretical Computer Science, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 2015
M.S. Quantum Physics, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 2014

Heidi Klumpe

(*Co-advised with Mo Khalil)
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Caltech, 2021
B.S. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2013

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Jean-Baptiste Lugagne

Postdoctoral Scholar, CNRS & INRIA, France 2017
Ph.D. Bioengineering, Universite Paris-VII, France, 2016
M.Sc. Signal Processing, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, 2012

 

PhD Students

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Caroline Blassick

Ph.D. candidate: Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Bioengineering, University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign, 2018

Eric Bueno

Ph.D. candidate: Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2021

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Cristian Coriano-Ortiz

Ph.D. candidate: Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019

Fereshteh Jafarbeglou

Ph.D. candidate: Biomedical Engineering
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, 2020
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, 2017

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Hellen Huang

Ph.D. candidate: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
B.S. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 2018

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Owen O’Connor

Ph.D. candidate: Biomedical Engineering
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 2017

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Eric South

Ph.D. candidate: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
M.Res. Systems and Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London, UK, 2019
B.S. Biotechnology, James Madison University, 2018

 

Research Fellows

Shweta Khorana

M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 2023
B.S. Bioengineering, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, 2022

 

Undergraduate Researchers

Josh Kome

B.S. candidate: Biomedical Engineering
Boston University

 

Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral Scholars

  • Dr. Jonghyeon Shin, 2019-2021
  • Dr. Nadia Sampaio, 2018-2020
  • Dr. Imane El Meouche, 2014-2019
  • Dr. Xi Wen, 2017-2018
  • Dr. Deepak Agrawal, 2016-2018

Graduate Students (Ph.D.)

  • Michael Sheets, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, 2023
    Thesis: Light-inducible tools for control of bacterial gene expression and antibiotic resistance
  • Nathan Tague, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, 2023
    Thesis: Utilizing light as an input and output for synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
  • Ariel Langevin, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, 2020
    Thesis: Dynamics and evolution of efflux-pump mediated antibiotic resistance
  • Tiebin Wang, Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, 2020
    Thesis: Fitness costs in antibiotic resistance and metabolic engineering
  • Nicholas Rossi, Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, 2019
    Thesis: Noise and information in bacterial multigene stress response systems
  • Tim Tomko, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 2017
    Thesis: Bioprospecting for genes that confer biofuel tolerance to Escherichia coli using a genomic library approach

Graduate Students (M.S. Thesis or Project)

  • Deeya Burman, M.S., Biomedical Engineering, 2020
    Project: Design, build, and test of Escherichia coli strains engineered to produce free fatty acids
  • Javier Garcia-Bernardo, M.S., Computer Science, 2015
    Thesis: Gene expression noise in stress response as a survival strategy in fluctuating environments
  • Jessica Lindle, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2015
    Thesis: Using a biosensor-controlled synthetic feedback loop to improve microbial biofuel tolerance
  • Will Turner, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2014
    Thesis: Understanding and improving microbial biofuel tolerance as a result of efflux pump expression through genetic engineering and mathematical modeling
  • Ana Camposeco-Jacobs, M.S., Biomedical Engineering, 2013
    Thesis: Role of noise in gene expression in the multiple antibiotic resistance network of E. coli
  • Mary Harrison, M.S., Biomedical Engineering, 2012
    Thesis: Synthetic feedback loop for increasing microbial biofuel production using a biosensor

Technicians

  • Nick Emery
  • Jesse Fenno
  • Yik Siu

Undergraduate Students

  • Betty Zhu, B.A. Mathematics & Computer Science
  • Sasha Dolynuk, B.S. Biomedical Engineering
  • Tommy Quinn, B.S. Biomedical Engineering
  • Sarah Nemsick, B.S. Biomedical Engineering
  • Vicente Trelles, B.S. Biotechnology (University of Edinburgh)
  • Vincent Chang, B.S. Biomedical Engineering
  • Lizzy Slade, B.S. Electrical Engineering
  • Marco Tulio Lopes Guerreiro, B.S. Electrical Engineering
  • Alexa Bartel, B.S. Environmental Engineering
  • James Lent, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
  • Will Turner, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
  • Cooper Van Vranken, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
  • Michael Barbour, B.S. Mechanical Engineering
  • Rachel Koh, B.S. Mechanical Engineering