We take pride in being an interdisciplinary, collegial, collaborative, and diverse group of scientists.
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Dr. Caroline Ajo-Franklin, Primary Investigator
I lead a group that forges new understanding and engineering strategies to interface microorganisms and materials. READ MORE
BioElectricians
&
BioMaterialists
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Dr. Jayashree Soman
Lab Manager Extraordinaire
Biki Kundu
Synthetic metabolism & respiration
Olivia Suggs
Fundamental assembly of Engineered Living Materials
Marimikel Charrier
Extracellular structures for materials
Robyn Alba
Bioelectronics & Biosensors
Dr. Siliang Li
Probiotic diagnostics & therapeutics
Swetha Sridhar
Microbe-mineral interactions
Ha Chau (Chloe) Nguyen
Engineered Living Materials
Carol De Groote Tavares
Electrogenetics in L. plantarum
Dr. Chris Geiger
Tracking electrons within & between microbes
Nicole Harris
Engineering & characterizing living materials
Carlson Nguyen
Rules For matrix engineering
Tianmin Yang
Environmental cell signaling
Wen-Chia Chen
Syn Bio, Bioelectronic pathway, & Microbiology
Dr. Marko Chavez
Characterizing bioelectronic materials
Sizhe Liu
Synthetic biology engineer
Zoe Folarin
Post-translational protein control