Mid-Atlantic SynBio Network Members – Academia
Academia-University/College
Allison Berke
Executive/Administrator
Staff Scientist
Stanford University
609 Brookview Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Email
650-276-9287
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Biosecurity, biosensors, protein engineering, binding and docking studies and automation
Resources/Services: Available I’m working remotely in Chapel Hill and am interested in connecting with other SynBio researchers around the area.
Andre Berry
Student-Graduate
Georgia Tech
North Ave NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
Email
(404) 643-0562
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Genetic Circuits, T-Cell Engineering, Cell Transport Devices, Microfluidic Reactors, DNA Computing, DNA Data Storage
Joan Bienvenue
Executive Director and Vice Provost
Executive/Administrator
University of Tennessee – Oak Ridge Innovation Institute
1 Bethel Valley Rd
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Email
(434) 326-2184
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Biosecurity, decarbonization, medical isotopes
Johnny Blazeck
Assistant Professor
Faculty/Lab Director
Georgia Tech
311 Ferst St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
Email
(412) 728-4022
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Synthetic immunology, protein engineering, synthetic biology, immunoengineering, metabolism
Resources/Services Available Molecular biology laboratory for protein engineering, directed evolution, mammalian cell engineering, microbial engineering
Kindra Bradley
Grants Manager
Executive/Administrator
Alamance Community College
1247 Jimmie Kerr Rd
Graham, NC 27253
Email
(336) 506-4415
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Biomanufacturing (from a grants, administrative, general interest point of view).
Resources/Services Available: Alamance Community College has small meeting spaces available in our Biotechnology Center of Excellence and plans to have a small-scale test-run size biomanufacturing line in that building within the next year (funds and plans are part of the Build Back Better grant: BioBetter which is entering is second year of the period of performance.
Anthony Burnetti
Staff Scientist
Georgia Institute of Technology
310 Ferst Drive NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Metabolic engineering, organelle function, phototrophy, multicellularity, bioproduction
Resources/Services Available: Directed evolution
Enrico Calore
Student-Graduate
Duke University
701 W Main St,
Durham, NC 27701
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: therapeutics, immunology, directed evolution
Andrew Cazier
Student-Graduate
Georgia Institute of Technology
311 Ferst Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30318
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Directed evolution, yeast surface display, CRISPR
Diptee Chaulagain
Post-Doctoral Associate
Clemson University
118 Engineering Service Dr,
Rhodes Rm 520
Clemson, SC 29631
Email
(864) 624-3090
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: bio-manufacturing, bioremediation
Gary Coleman
Associate Professor
Faculty/Lab Director
University of Maryland
2125 Plant Science Building
4291 Fieldhouse Road
College Park, MD 20742
Email
(301) 405-4371
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Plant biotechnology and synthetic biology
Nathan Crook
Assistant Professor
Faculty/Lab Director
North Carolina State University
911 Partners Way
Box 7905
Raleigh, NC 27695
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Probiotics, microbiome, directed evolution
Leah Davis
Research Specialist and Graduate Student
4605 Chester Ave
Apt. B104
Philadelphia, PA 19143
Email
(717) 676-1263
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Immunoengineering, synthetic biology education, mammalian cell-based biosensors
Resources/Services Available University of Pennsylvania contact, Rowan University Contact, Engineering Research Biology Consortium (EBRC) Student & Postdoc Association (SPA) contact, solid cancer adoptive cell therapy
Brian Dobosh
Post-Doctoral Associate
Emory University
2015 Uppergate Dr., Room 360
Atlanta, GA 30322
Email
(516) 382-4000
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Immune cell engineering
Ana De Pereda
Student-Graduate
Georgia Tech
790 Huff Road NW, Apt 7034
Atlanta, GA 30318
Email
(951) 514-7009
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Bioengineering, genetic engineering, systems biology, living therapeutics, gut microbiome, genetic circuits
Corinne Drabenstott
Undergraduate Researcher
Student-Undergraduate
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
206 Painted Fall Way
Cary, NC 27513
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: biosensors
Katherine Duncker
Student-Graduate
Duke University
101 Science Dr
Durham, NC 27705
Email
Phone Number (224) 659-0631
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: biosensors, machine learning, bioremediation, biomanufacturing
Ed Eisenstein
Professor
Faculty/Lab Director
University of Maryland
IBBR-Shady Grove
9600 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
Email
(240) 314-6244
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Plant synthetic biology; biofuel and bioproducts; iGEM
Kathryne Ford
Post-Doctoral Associate
North Carolina State University
840 Main Campus Dr, 3309 Partners II
Raleigh, NC 27606-5215
Email
Website
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: thermophile bioengineering, bioproduction, fermentation, lignin degradation, biomass conversion
Kierra Franklin
Student-Graduate
Emory University
1760 Haygood Dr NE
HSRB E-154
Atlanta, GA 30322
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Biomolecular engineering, DNA editing, gene therapy
Rana Ganguly
Executive/Administrator
University of Virginia, College of Arts & Sciences
PO Box 400772
1605 Jefferson Park Avenue, University of Virginia, College of Arts & Sciences
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4772
Email
(434) 284-0251
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Entire field of Synthetic Biology; As an administrator, I act as a facilitator and catalyst of research collaboration and sponsored development of research projects
David Glass
Assistant Professor
Faculty/Lab Director
Stony Brook University
Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: multicellular systems, evolution, bio-manufacturing, synthetic materials
Linna Han
Research Scholar
Staff Scientist
NCSU
840 Main Campus Dr.
Partners II, Room 3700
Raleigh, NC 27519
Email
Phone Number (919) 337-2204
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Synthetic biology, molecular biology and biochemistry, protein engineering, enzyme replacement therapy
Jennifer Hennigan
Post-Doctoral Associate
Duke University
701 W Main St
Suite 410
Durham, NC 27701
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Bio-manufacturing
Zachary Herde
Student-Graduate
Georgia Institute of Technology
950 Atlantic Avenue NW
Atlanta, GA 30332
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Synthetic Biology, Protein Engineering, Energy and Environment, Agriculture
Kendreze Holland
Student-Graduate
Georgia Tech
242 Cityline Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30308
Email
(770) 895-6458
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: cellular engineering, yeast engineering, recombinant DNA, CRISPR-(d)cas9, transcriptional regulation
Brian Huang
Student-Graduate
Georgia Tech
950 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332
Email
(850) 766-2812
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Microbiome, Protein engineering, Genetic circuits, Biosecurity
Irene Ikiriko
Student-Graduate
University of Delaware
Delaware Biotechnology Institute, 590 Avenue 1743
City: Newark, DE 19713
Email
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Biomechanics
Samyukta Iyer
Student-Undergraduate
Georgia Institute of Technology
1107 Promontory Drive
Marietta, GA 30062
Email
(678) 650-0311
General Area(s) of Research or Interest: Bioremediation, biomanufacturing, bioinformatics, drug delivery, systems modeling