User:Endy

Drew Endy

Cabot Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT
Contact via:
Isadora Deese, isadora at mit dot edu
617.253.5494

Goals

• help enable the responsible and constructive engineering of biology
• better understand information flow and loss in reproducing machines

Projects

• open commons of information specifying biological function
  • The BioBricks Foundation
• more responsible people who are working to engineer biology and constructively apply biological technology
  • Codon Devices, Inc.
  • Barcodes
  • Synthetic Genomics Study
• decomposition of reproducing machine design across three characteristic timescales (perform, learn, evolve/persist)
  • Error Detection & Correction in Replicating Machines
  • Codon Optimized for Failure

Course Development

• BE.109
• BE.180
• BE.181
• iGEM
• CSBI.100