Biotechnology Systems & Synthetic Biology

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Biotechnology Systems and Synthetic Biology prepares students for academic and industrial careers and offers students the opportunity to pursue research in several areas including rehabilitation engineering and movement biomechanics, biomechanics and transport, cardiovascular and vascular engineering, biotechnology, nanotechnology and tissue engineering and biomaterials, imaging and signal analysis, quantitative neuroscience, medical devices and instrumentation, and eye research. Training is highly interdisciplinary and interdepartmental through research, specialized courses in advanced topics, and, in some cases, practical exposure to industrial biotechnology and industrial internships. Research opportunities in this concentration integrate many disciplines and involve collaborative efforts between preceptors from various fields. Outstanding students in this concentration may be nominated for support by the Biotechnology Predoctoral Training Program or the Ryan Nanotechnology Fellowship.

Biotechnology Pre-Doctoral Training Grant

Faculty List

	Ravi Allada, PhD Email: r-allada@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep
	Luis Nunes Amaral, PhD Email: amaral@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Systems approach to the characterization and modeling of cellular networks
	Guillermo Ameer, PhD Email: g-ameer@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Biomaterials, tissue engineering, and biotechnology
	Vadim Backman, PhD Email: v-backman@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Development of novel optical spectral and imaging techniques for non-invasive screening, diagnosis and detection of disease, and characterization of biological and bioengineered tissue.
	Neda Bagheri, PhD Email: n-bagheri@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Computational systems biology and complex regulatory networks. Dynamical systems and control theory.
	Linda J. Broadbelt, PhD Email:broadbelt@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Multiscale modeling, complex kinetics modeling, environmental catalysis, novel biochemical pathways, and polymerization/depolymerization kinetics
	Richard F. Gaber, PhD Email: r-gaber@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Nutrient sensing and molecular chaperones
	Bartosz A. Grzybowski, PhD Email: grzybor@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Self-assembly in dynamic and biological systems, interactions between cells/biomolecules and nanostructured materials, cell motility and cytoskeletal dynamics, and biomimetic chemical systems
	Michael C. Jewett, PhD Email: m-jewett@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Engineering cell-free systems for medicine, biotechnology and synthetic biology
	David Kelso, PhD Email: kels@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Antibody and DNA binding reactions in solution and on solid phases
	William L. Klein, PhD Email: wklein@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease
	Joshua Leonard, PhD Email: j-leonard@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Engineering cellular systems and biomolecules for immunotherapy, synthetic biology, and biotechnology
	Robert A. Linsenmeier, PhD Email: r-linsenmeier@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Retinal microenvironment
	Shu Q. Liu, PhD Email: sliu@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Molecular regenerative engineering for enhancing endothelial cell retention and reducing intimal hyperplasia in arterial substitutes
	John F. Marko, PhD Email: john-marko@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Protein-DNA interactions; chromosome structure and dynamics; single-molecule biophysics
	Andreas Matouschek, PhD Email: matouschek@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Mechanisms of macromolecular machines
	Kelly E. Mayo, PhD Email: k-mayo@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Gene regulation in the mammalian neuroendocrine system
	Thomas J. Meade, PhD Email: tmeade@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Bioinorganic chemistry, biological molecular imaging and electronic biosensors
	William M. Miller, PhD Email: wmmiller@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Expansion and controlled differentiation of hematopoietic (blood) stem cells
	Chad Mirkin, PhD Email: chadnano@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 - 100 nm length scale
	Richard I. Morimoto, PhD Email: r-morimoto@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Regulation and function of molecular chaperones
	Thomas V. O'Halloran, PhD Email: t-ohalloran@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Metalloregulatory proteins
	Ishwar Radhakrishnan, PhD Email: i-radhakrishnan@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Structure, function and dynamics of proteins involved in eukaryotic gene regulation
	Lonnie Shea, PhD Email: l-shea@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Regenerative medicine, gene and drug delivery, biomaterials
	Richard B. Silverman, PhD Email: agman@chem.northwestern.edu Research Interests:Medicinal, bioorganic, and enzyme chemistry
	Erik J. Sontheimer, PhD Email: erik@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Ribonucleoproteins and eukaryotic gene expression
	Keith E.J. Tyo, PhD Email: k-tyo@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, microbial engineering, systems biology, resource-poor healthcare delivery, biofuels
	Olke Uhlenbeck, PhD Email: o-uhlenbeck@northwestern.edu Research Interests: RNA biochemistry
	Vinzenz Unger, PhD Email: v-unger@northwestern.edu Research Interests:Transport of transition metals; structure and function of membrane associated synaptic scaffolds; methods development for membrane protein crystallization and single particle approaches
	Yun Wang, PhD Email: yun-wang@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Medical and environmental microbiology, aquatic geochemistry
	Teresa Woodruff, PhD Email: tkw@northwestern.edu Research Interests: Regulation of ovarian follicle growth