Synthetic Phyto-Solutions

Synthetic Phyto-Solutions is an emerging area of SynBio that combines engineering principles with basic plant biology methodologies aimed at the design and production of new plant-based products and devices. This area will play an important role in crop improvement, but more importantly will also enable the design, production, and utilization of novel bioproduction in plants for an array of products of human and societal need.  Below are faculty actively engaged in this area of research.

Mark P. Beenhakker

School of Medicine

Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Giorgio Carta

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Lawrence R. Quarles Professor
Andres Clarens

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Associate Professor
Cristian Danna

College of Arts & Sciences

Assistant Professor of Biology
Mool Gupta

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Langley Professor
Devin Harris

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Associate Professor and Director - Center for Transportation Studies
Osman Ozbulut

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Associate Professor
Lisa Colosi Peterson

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Anthony Spano

College of Arts & Sciences

Research Assistant Professor of Biology
Michael Timko

College of Arts & Sciences

Lewis & Clark Chair of Biology, Director of Undergraduate Program in Human Biology
Baoxing Xu

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Assistant Professor
Jochen Zimmer

School of Medicine

Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics