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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

Frank Bayliss
SFSU – Center Diversity Coordinator
Katherine Nielsen
UCSF-SEP – Education Coordinator
Orion Weiner
UCSF – Graduate Education Coordinator
Charles Craik
UCSF Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer Coordinator
Charles Hart
Knowledge Transfer Advisor
Robert McGinn
CCC Lead Ethics Investigator
Center for Work, Technology & Organization, Stanford University (Emeritus Professor)
Jennifer Fung
Information Coordinator

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]

 

Lynn Anderson
[email protected]

ADVISORS

External advisory committee

Neda Bagheri
Chemical Engineering and Biology
University of Washington

Judi Brown Clarke
Vice President for Equity & Inclusion
Stony Brook University

Thomas Daniel
Dept. of Biology
University of Washington

Carlos Gutierrez
Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry
CSU Los Angeles

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
HHMI, Janelia Farm Campus

Jane Maienschein
Center for biology and Society
Arizona State University

Radhika Nagpal,
Dept. of Computer Science
Harvard University

Jodi Nunnari
Altos Labs

Kinkead Reiling
Founder and CEO, Bonneville Labs

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