Dr. Ron Weiss

Biography

Professor Weiss pioneers synthetic biology. He has been engaged in synthetic biology research since 1996 as a graduate student at MIT where he helped set up a wet-lab in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. After completing his PhD, Weiss joined the faculty at Princeton University and later returned to MIT to take a tenured faculty position in the Department of Biological Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The Weiss Laboratory focuses on creating integrated biological systems capable of autonomously performing useful tasks and elucidating the design principles underlying complex phenotypes. The lab employs computer engineering principles to program cells and has developed synthetic gene networks that implement biochemical logic circuits in Escherichia coli and integrate digital and analog circuitry for controlling cellular behavior.

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