Research Interests
Quantitative biology, synthetic biology, machine learning, antibiotic resistance, microbiome
Selected Grants
Tradeoffs between fitness costs and transfer rates in horizontal gene transfer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2022 - 2027NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr)
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2027University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1994 - 2027Evolutionary dynamics of combinational antimicrobial treatments
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2026Summer Scholars in Genome Sciences & Medicine
Inst. Training Prgm or CMESignificant Contributor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2026Bacterial antibiotic response and population dynamics in microscopic surface wetness
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by US-Israel Binational Science Foundation · 2022 - 2025Uncovering and applying the design principles of multiphasic natural and synthetic organelles
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Princeton University · 2020 - 2025Targeted control of self-transmissible plasmids by using engineered interfering plasmids
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2025ECO-COATING - Engineering Control of Organic Coatings on Autonomous Navy Gliders
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Clemson University · 2022 - 2024Inductive repair of human kidney tissues by cell type-specific sensing and reprogramming
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by University of Michigan · 2021 - 2024Predictable Engineering of Self-organized Spatial Patterns in Bacteria
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2020 - 2024RoL: Modulation of microbial community dynamics by spatial partitioning
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023Enhancing computational capability for quantitative and synthetic biology
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2022 - 2023A comprehensive research resource to define mechanisms underlying microbial regulation of host metabolism in pediatric obesity and obesity-targeted therapeutics
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2022Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2021A synthetic-biology approach to study scaling properties of self-organized patterns
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2020Understanding the Skin Microbiome through the Integration of Metagenomics, Bioinformatics, Spatial Ecology, and Synthetic Biology
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory · 2014 - 2019Programming bacteria for materials fabrication
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2015 - 2019Temporal E2F Dynamics and Cell-Fate Decisions in Single Mammalian Cells
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2019Enhancing imaging capability for quantitative and synthetic biology research and education
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2018 - 2019Reprogramming cellular behavior with synthetic gene circuits
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Inc. · 2008 - 2018Supplement - Understanding the Skin Microbiome through the Integration of Metagenomics, Bioinformatics, Spatial Ecology, and Synthetic Biology
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory · 2018 - 2018A synthetic biology approach to analyze evolution of programmed bacterial death
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2018DURIP: Enhancing capability of quantitative biology research and education
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2015 - 2016Programming bacteria for materials fabrication
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2012 - 2015Development of a Microfluidic Platform to Analyze Evolution of Programmed Bacterial Death
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2014 - 2015Engineering Microbial Swarmbots
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2015Delivery of Bacterial Therapeutics to Solid Tumors
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2009 - 2013Coordinating Cell Killing by Communication: Biological Control and Cancer Therapy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2006 - 2012High-performance Computing System for Bioinformatics
EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2010Modeling, Predicting, and Reprogramming Dynamic Cellular Networks
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2006 - 2008External Relationships
- Andrea Weiss
- Cambridge University
- Oxford University
- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technologies, Shenzhen, China
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- University of Copenhagen
- University of Essex
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