Microbial Delivery for Health and Defense

Microbial Delivery for Health and Defense

  • Developing new anti-microbial molecules
  • Developing probiotics for disease management and defense
  • Rational engineering of the microbiome to enhance human health
  • Engineering harmless bacteria into platforms for vaccine development
 
Bio

UVA: Embracing the SYNBIO Revolution

Where societal revolutions have occurred with new ability to manipulate energy or information,
Synthetic Biology will do the same in the 21st century by using living organisms as the
“new material” to create new economies and better personal well-being.


Photo Credit: NIH
Biobanks for Data and Energy

Bio-Focused Data & Energy Technologies

  • Designing novel genetic engineering methods
  • Sub-molecular imaging of protein-DNA interactions
  • Improving super-resolution imaging of microbes
  • Developing sensors for microbes and metabolites
  • Developing bio-mimetics for harvesting clean energy or data storage
 

In the News

Being small is good. Being very small is better. That is the philosophy of Mark Kester, University of Virginia professor of biomedical engineering, pharmacology and molecular physiology and biophysics. 

Presentation

On June 7, 2019, the University of Virginia hosted the first Mid-Atlantic Synthetic Biology Symposium.  SynBio@UVA hosted the symposium and invited guests and speakers from academic institutions, research and development facilities, and government agencies.