Opportunity Description:

Current Projects (# of open positions) Office of Naval Research & AFRL (1) Engineering microbes to control heat production National Institutes of Health (2) Tunable therapeutic modulation of the gut microbiome by engineered probiotics US Department of Agriculture (1) Development of kill-switches for biocontainment of genetically engineered microbes (GEMs) Environmental Protection Agency (1) Developing microbial biocontainment strategies and their assessment methods National Science Foundation (1) Unifying synthetic small regulatory RNAs Department of Energy, JGI & AIChE (1) Developing a consolidated biological process to upcycle plastics Developing novel microbial hosts for waste plastic upcycling PETase design and screening by AI-assisted DNA synthesis (up to 500kb) National Science Foundation (2) - Recommended Integration of mathematics and biology DARPA (3) – Recommended Biomineralization Application for space exploration