What is
CELLULAR CONSTRUCTION
CELLULAR ENGINEERING. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Welcome to the Center for Cellular Construction.
We are an NSF Science and Technology Center (STC), supported by a Cooperative Award,
DBI-1548297. Our mission is to turn cell biology into an engineering discipline by learning how to engineer the physical structure and interactions of living cells, to turn them into living bioreactors
and modules of novel self-organizing devices.
We are working to realize this vision through four subgoals:
(i) building the tools and concepts to implement a full design-build-test cycle in cell biology;
(ii) educating scientists and engineers at all levels to work with the cell as an engineering medium;
(iii) broadening awareness and participation; and (iv) driving innovation through applications. We aim to provide a new basis for tackling important global challenges of the 21st century.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Wallace Marshall
Center Director
Zev Gartner
Co-Director and Research Coordinator
Debra Singer
Managing Director
Olivia Viloria
Center Finance Administrator
SFSU – Center Diversity Coordinator
UCSF-SEP – Education Coordinator
UCSF – Graduate Education Coordinator
UCSF Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer Coordinator
Knowledge Transfer Advisor
CCC Lead Ethics Investigator
Center for Work, Technology & Organization, Stanford University (Emeritus Professor)
Information Coordinator
Michelle Phillips, Phillips & Assoc.
Center Evaluator
RESEARCH FACULTY
EXPLORATORIUM
IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER
Tom Zimmerman
University of California San Francisco
Shawn Douglas
Sophie Dumont
Orion Weiner
University of California Berkeley
Daniel Fletcher
John Dueber
San Francisco State University
Kai (Laura) Burrus
Stanford University
Sindy Tang
Manu Prakash
ADMINISTRATIVE
JoAnne Brown
[email protected]
Jennifer Thompson
[email protected]
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ADVISORS
External advisory committee
Neda Bagheri
Chemical Engineering and Biology
University of Washington
Judi Brown Clarke
Vice President for Equity & Inclusion
Stony Brook University
Irene Chen
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Daniel
Dept. of Biology
University of Washington
Carlos Gutierrez
Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry
CSU Los Angeles
Ajay Gopinathan
Department of Physics
University of California, Merced
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
HHMI, Janelia Farm Campus
Jane Maienschein
Center for Biology and Society
Arizona State University
Dan Widmaier
CEO, Bolt Threads
AFFILIATES
Brian von Herzen, Climate Foundation
Jennifer Frazier, Science Communication Lab
Ada Poon, Stanford
Aaron Streets, UC Berkeley
Chris Hernandez, HIVE, UCSF
Archana Anand, SFSU
INFORMAL AFFILIATES
Rebecca Smith
PARTNERS
