People

Jay Keasling, Director
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Bioengineering
Wendell Lim, Deputy Director
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Drew Endy, Strategic Director
Stanford University
Department of Bioengineering
Susan Marqusee, Education Director
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences

 

Thrust and Testbed Leaders
Parts Tanja Kortemme
Biopharmaceutical Sciences UCSF
Devices Christopher Voigt
Pharmaceutical Chemistry UCSF
Chassis George Church Genetics Harvard
Human Practices Paul Rabinow Anthropology UCB
Tumor-Destroying Bacterium Christopher Anderson Bioengineering UCB
Microbial Chemical Factories Kristala Jones Prather Biological Engineering MIT
Industrial Superfermenter Christopher Voigt
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
UCSF

 

Research Members
J. Christopher Anderson
UCB Systems-level bioengineering, applications, BioCAD
Adam Arkin  UCB Mathematical theory, computational and experimental approaches to analysis of cellular function; genomics
Carlos Bustamante UCB Creation of alternative chassis from mitochondria, single-molecule manipulation and detection (optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence microscopy)
George Church Harvard Engineering genomic chassis for safe therapeutic bacteria, synthetic genomics (DNA from chips, error correction & assembly), rE.coli project to make new in vivo genetic codes
Raul Cuero  PVAMU Microbial biotechnology, bio-nanotechnology, molecular biology, bioremediation
Drew Endy  Stanford Standards and safety, genetically encoded memory systems, biology easy to engineer
Kristala Jones Prather  MIT Design and assembly of recombinant microorganisms for the production of small molecules (metabolic engineering, biochemical engineering, bioprocess engineering, synthetic biology)
Jay Keasling  UCB Biosynthetic production of theurapeutic molecules, renewable energy, and environmental biotechnology (systems biology, environmental biotechnology)
Thomas Knight  MIT Computational and systems biology, minimal chassis, applying engineering principles to biology
Tanja Kortemme  UCSF Computational biology; prediction and design of protein interactions and interaction networks combining computational modeling and experimental analysis
Wendell Lim  UCSF Molecular logic of cellular signaling systems (signal transduction, protein-protein recognition, protein switches and networks, signaling protein and network evolution, systems biology, biological computation)
Susan Marqusee  UCB Protein folding and function, part optimization, engineering allostery
Kenneth Oye  MIT Science and technology policy, biosafety, biosecurity, and environmental risk (Political Science and Engineering Systems)
Paul Rabinow  UCB Contemporary anthropology of molecular biology and genomics, biopolitical power
Randy Rettberg  MIT Registries and repositories, automated DNA construction, synbio education and training (iGEM)
Pam Silver Harvard Synthetic biology, pathways in disease,
RNA dynamics, genome organization
Chris Voigt  UCSF Engineering two-component systems, construction of synthetic genetic circuits, system design, organelle refactoring and engineering
Ron Weiss MIT Programming novel systems-level cellular behaviors, design of synthetic gene networks



Scientific Advisory Board
Jef Boeke
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Sydney Brenner Genetics, Molecular Biology Salk Institute
Douglas Cameron
Piper Jaffray
James J. Collins
Center for Biodynamics Boston University
Maitreya Dunham Genome Sciences
University of Washington
Michael Elowitz Biology and Applied Physics Caltech
George Khushf
Bioethics and Medical Humanities University of South Carolina
Martin Rosenberg
Chief Scientific Officer
Promega Corporation
Thomas White
Chief Scientific Officer, VP of Research
Celera Diagnostics