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Farren Isaacs

Professor; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Research Interests: Synthetic Biology, Genome Engineering, Systems Biology, Bioengineering, Engineered biomaterials & RNAs

PEB Students

  • Peter Ciaccia

    Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (Isaacs Lab)
  • Kebron Gurara

    Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (Isaacs Lab)
    Research Interests: My current research interests are (1) engineering bacterial translation machinery and (2) building a bottom up understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind biomaterial performance.
  • Dr. Daniel Moonan

    Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (Isaacs lab)
    Thesis title: “Design and construction of a recorded organism containing 62 codons”
  • Dr. Paul Muir

    Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (Gerstein and Isaacs lab)
    Thesis title: “Studying gene duplication, divergence, and disablement across the mouse lineage and in the laboratory”
  • Maisha Prome

    Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (Isaacs Lab)
    Research Interests: I am interested in tunable biomaterials, specifically endowing novel properties in spider silks for sustainability and medical applications