PI: Caroline Ajo-Franklin, Director of the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute, Rice University
The Ajo-Franklin Lab uses biophysics and synthetic biology to engineer the nanoscale interface between living microbes and inorganic material.

PI: Anne Brown, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech
The Brown Lab bridges the gap between traditional wet lab techniques and computational methods to deepen understanding of biological systems.

PI: Emily Mevers, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech
The Mevers Lab focuses on the discovery of novel natural products and studying the chemistry of ecological systems.

Dr. Dilip Krishnan, Senior Staff Reserach Scientist at Google DeepMind
Large Language Models. Deep, supervised, and Unsupervised Learning; GenAI for Language, Image and Text-to-Image; Continuous Optimization; Numerical Analysis.

PI: Nikhil U. Nair, Tufts University
The Nair Lab is focused on Synthetic Biology and Systems Bioengineering. We have collaborated on developing tools to aid in bioengineering.