Rahul Sarpeshkar, PhD
Title(s)
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology
Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Thomas E. Kurtz Professor
Professor of Engineering
Professor of Physics
Department(s)
Microbiology and Immunology
Molecular and Systems Biology
Education
BS, Electrical Engineering and Physics, MIT
PhD, Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology
Programs
Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Programs
Websites
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Contact Information
Professional Interests
Synthetic analog and digital biological circuits in electri-cigenic and other microbes. Applications of synthetic and systems biology to immunology, infectious disease, and cancer.
Biography
Awards
NSF CAREER Award
ONR Young Investigator Award
Packard Fellow Award
Junior Bose Teaching Award, MIT
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
Fellow, IEEE
Gene syntaxes modulate gene expression and circuit behavior on plasmids. Growth-coupled continuous directed evolution by MutaT7 enables efficient and automated enzyme engineering. Drug Cocktail Formulation via Circuit Design. A Compact and Power-Efficient Noise Generator for Stochastic Simulations. Rapid modeling of experimental molecular kinetics with simple electronic circuits instead of with complex differential equations. Cytomorphic Electronic Systems: A review and perspective. Formulation and Emulation of Quantum-Inspired Dynamical Systems With Classical Analog Circuits. Measuring and modeling energy and power consumption in living microbial cells with a synthetic ATP reporter. The Merging of Biological and Electronic Circuits. A compiler for biological networks on silicon chips. |
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