Elowitz, Michael B.

Committee Member — 112 thesises

• Chen, Linlin — A Platform for High Throughput Discovery of Sequence Defined Affinity Reagents (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shivaei, Shirin — A Viral Toolkit for Ultrasound Imaging of Cellular Activity and Gene Expression (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lacenere, Christopher J. — Advances in Single Molecule Nucleic Acid Sequencing (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Zachary Zhipeng — An in vitro Biomolecular Breadboard for Prototyping Synthetic Biological Circuits (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Swaminathan, Anandh — Application, Computation, and Theory for Synthetic Gene Circuits (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Jining — Applications of Dynamic Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology in Closed-Loop Genetic Circuits and Detection of Viral Pathogens (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Young, Jonathan Wan — Architecture, Dynamics, and Function of the General Stress Response System in B. subtilis (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shao, Zixuan — Biological Responses to Therapeutic Treatments of Human Vascular Diseases (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Frederick Eng How — Brfl Post-Transcriptionally Regulates Pluripotency and Differentiation Responses Downstream of Erk MAP Kinase (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chakravorty, Arun — Bridging Space and Time: Resolving the Temporal Dynamics of the Seminiferous Epithelial Cycle Using Spatial Transcriptomics (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Du, Rongrong — Build Synthetic Circuits at Different Scales (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flynn, Michael J. — Building to Understand MiRNA Circuits (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dalal, Chiraj Kiran — Causes and Consequences of Gene Expression Noise (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bower, Danielle Vera Brown — Chemical and Neural Regulation of Embryonic Branching Morphogenesis (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fisher-Aylor, Katherine Irene — Chromatin Topology and Transcription in Myogenesis (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Park, Jin — Circuits of Dynamically Interacting Sigma Factors in Single Cells (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Jinho — Compact Microscope System for Biomedical Applications (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hanewich-Hollatz, Mikhail Henning — Conditional Guide RNAs: Programmable Conditional Regulation of CRISPR/Cas Function via Dynamic RNA Nanotechnology (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klumpe, Heidi Elizabeth — Context-Dependent, Combinatorial Logic of BMP Signaling (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murphy, Gavin Erick — Cryoelectron Tomography of Bacteria and their Macromolecular Machines (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mayfield, Acacia Michelle Hori — Customized and Modular Control of Gene Expression for Precision Gene Therapies (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barnes, Stephanie Loos — Decoding the Regulatory Genome: Quantitative Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation in Escherichia coli (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Honson, Drew Daniel — Development and Application of Proteomic and Genomic Methods in RNA Biology (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bogatyrev, Said R. — Development of Analytical Tools and Animal Models for Studies of Small-Intestine Dysbiosis (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goldberg, Mark David — Development of Microfluidic Devices with the Use of Nanotechnology to Aid in the Analysis of Biological Systems Including Membrane Protein Separation, Single Cell Analysis, and Genetic Markers (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Collins, Cynthia Hollie — Directed Evolution of the Transcriptional Activator LuxR (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Banerjee, Abhik Kumar — Diverse Roles of RNA-protein Interactions: From Viral Antagonism to Mammalian Development (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuintzle, Rachael Christine — Diversity in Notch Ligand-Receptor Signaling Interactions (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schaedel, Oren Noah — Dynamic Regulation of the Dauer Decision (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dunlop, Mary Julia — Dynamics and Correlated Noise in Gene Regulation (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yong, John — Dynamics and Heterogeneity of Gene Expression and Epigenetic Regulation at the Single-Cell Level (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Andrew C. — Engineered Protein Circuits for Cancer Therapy (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chong, Lucy Shin — Engineering and Delivery of Programmable Protein Circuits as Potential Therapeutic Devices (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brenner, Sarah Katherine — Engineering Synthetic Biofilm-Forming Microbial Consortia (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dobreva, Tatyana — Engineering Tools to Probe and Manipulate the Immune System at Single-Cell Resolution (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duan, Mengtong (Tom) — Expanding Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging and Synthetic Biology: Dynamic Acoustic Reporter Gene Imaging and Ratio-Tuning of Mammalian mRNA Polycistronic Expression (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cornejo de los Santos, Emmanuel Lorenzo — Expanding the Toolkit for Synthetic Biology: Frameworks for Native-like Non-natural Gene Circuits (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marken, John Paul — Experimental and Theoretical Frameworks for Enabling Environmental Synthetic Biology (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lakhanpal, Amit — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Notch Signaling-Mediated Spatial Pattern (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levine, Joseph H. — Genetic Regulatory Circuit Dynamics: Analysis and Synthesis (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chadly, Duncan Matthew — High-Resolution Phylogenetic Lineage Recording with CRISPR Base Editors (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goronzy, Isabel Nadine — Higher-Order Chromatin States and Nuclear Structures Regulating Gene Expression (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shah, Sheel Mukesh — Highly Multiplexed Single Cell In Situ RNA Detection (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kuntz, Steven Gregory — hlh-1 and the C. elegans Body Wall Muscle Transcriptional Differentiation Network (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gordon, Sean Patrick — Hormone and Gene Feedback during Development and Regeneration in Arabidopsis thaliana (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Frick, Christopher Lee — How Single Cells Sense Smad3 Signal (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ford, William Chastang — I. Quantal Effects in Biochemical Cooperativity and a Proposed Mechanism for the Differentiation of Calcium Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity. II. Evolutionary Algorithms for the Optimization of Methods in Computational Chemistry (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Röschinger, Tom — Illuminating the Regulatory Dark Matter of E. coli with Massively Parallel Reporter Assays (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edmonds, KeHuan Kuo — Imaging Cell Lineage with a Synthetic Digital Recording System (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ivy, Tobin William — Implementing and Modeling Gene Drives for Population Modification and Suppression (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Lin — In vitro DNA Mechanics in Gene Regulation: One Molecule at a Time (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Jongmin — In Vitro Synthetic Transcriptional Networks (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zheng, Guoan — Innovations in Imaging System Design: Gigapixel, Chip-Scale and MultiFunctional Microscopy (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Takei, Yodai — Integrated Spatial Genomics Reveals Organizational Principles of Single-Cell Nuclear Architecture (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gu, Ming — Interactions Between Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 During Slow-Wave Sleep (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nunns, Harry James Rogan — Linearity in Cell Signaling Pathways (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bao, Xiaoyan Robert — Lost in a Crowd: Observations of Single DNA Knots and Single Mammalian Cells (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vyawahare, Saurabh — Manipulating Fluids: Advances in Micro-Fluidics, Opto-Fluidics and Fluidic Self-Assembly (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kulkarni, Rajan P. — Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton: Examining the Dynamics of Cytoplasmic Transport through Fluorescence Microscopy (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ward, Catherine Marie — Medea Selfish Genetic Elements as Tools for Altering Traits of Wild Populations: A Theoretical Analysis (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Kibeom — Memory and Decoding in Signaling Transduction Pathways (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Singer, Zakary Sean — Metastability and Dynamics of Stem Cells: From Direct Observations to Inference at the Single Cell Level (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Wonhee — Microfluidic Chip Calorimeters for Biological Applications (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maerkl, Sebastian Josef — Microfluidic Large Scale Integration and its Application to Systems Biology (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Balagaddé, Frederick Kiguli — Microfluidic Technologies for Continuous Culture and Genetic Circuit Characterization (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hansen, Carl Lars Genghis — Microfluidic Technologies for Structural Biology (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Drummond, David Allan — Misfolding Dominates Protein Evolution (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhamidipati, Pranav Subramanyam — Modeling and Design of Synthetic Biochemical Circuits for Biological Phenotypes (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Frankiw, Luke Steven — mRNA Splicing-Mediated Gene Expression Regulation in Innate Immunity (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhu, Ronghui — Multicellular Circuit Design in Mammalian Cells (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ma, Yitong — Multicellular Synthetic Biology in Mammalian Systems (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Acharya, Aneesh — Multiplexed Analysis of Diverse RNA Classes via Hybridization Chain Reaction (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rios, Gustavo — Nanofabricated Neural Probe System for Dense 3-D Recordings of Brain Activity (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kratz, Matthieu Francois — Naturally-Inspired Circuits for Microbial Composition Control and Biosensing (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Inagaki, Hidehiko K. — Neuronal Mechanism of State Control in Drosophila melanogaster (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nandagopal, Nagarajan — New Capabilities of the Notch Signaling Pathway (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hariadi, Rizal Fajar — Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of DNA Nanotubes (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhat, Prashant — On the Role of Three-Dimensional Genome Organization in Gene Regulation and mRNA Splicing (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ren, Xinying (Cindy) — Principles for Designing Robust and Stable Synthetic Microbial Consortia (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Su, Christina Janet — Principles of Addressing Specificity in Promiscuous Ligand-Receptor Systems (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choi, Harry Ming Tak — Programmable In Situ Amplification for Multiplexed Bioimaging (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Srinivas, Niranjan — Programming Chemical Kinetics: Engineering Dynamic Reaction Networks with DNA Strand Displacement (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Silverman, Bradley Ross — Protein-Mediated Colloidal Assembly (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guo, Shaobin — Prototyping Diverse Synthetic Biological Circuits in a Cell-Free Transcription-Translation System (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Belliveau, Nathan Maurice — Quantitative Dissection of the Allosteric and Sequence-Dependent Regulatory Genome in E. coli (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Loson, Oliver Calvin — Regulation of Mitochondrial Division by the Drp1 Receptors (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sen, Shaunak — Regulatory Consequences of Bandpass Feedback in a Bacterial Phosphorelay (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gong, Mengsha — Remodeling Jellyfish (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jiang, Jialong — Revealing Regulatory Network Organization Through Single-Cell Perturbation Profiling and Maximum Entropy Models (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Chun-Kan — Revealing the Mechanism of Xist-mediated Silencing (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Larios-Colorado, David Antonio — Reverse Engineering the Programming Logic of Cytoskeletal Dynamics (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Venturelli, Ophelia Shalini — Role of Feedback and Dynamics of a Gene Regulatory Network (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Daniel Lawson III — Sequence-Function Relationships in E. coli Transcriptional Regulation (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shur, Andrey Sergeyvich — Serine Integrase-Based Event Recording in E. coli (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sternberg, Jonathan Ben-Zion — Signal Transduction with Hybridization Chain Reactions (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Axelrod, Blake Waters — Single Cell Pico Force Microscopy: A Novel Tool for High Resolution Measurement of Cell Forces (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kartalov, Emil Paskalev — Single-Molecule Detection and DNA Sequencing-by-Synthesis (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ursell, Tristan Scott — Stretching the Definition of a Lipid Bilayer: Elasticity's Role in Protein and Lipid Organization (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mahdavi, Alborz — Synthetic Biology Tools for Targeted Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids into Cellular Proteins (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsiao, Victoria — Synthetic Circuits for Feedback and Detection in Bacteria (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Sheng — Synthetic Circuits for Multicellular Spatial Patterning (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bayer, Travis Scott — Synthetic Regulation and Genetic Control of an Ecological Strategy (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Galloway, Kate Elizabeth — The Development of RNA-based Control Systems to Regulate Signaling and Dictate Cell Fate in a Model MAPK Pathway (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shih, Pei-Yin — The Ethology of Stress in Nematodes (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• LeBon, Lauren E. — The Logic of Receptor-Ligand Interactions in the Notch Signaling Pathway (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chure, Griffin Daniel — The Molecular Biophysics of Evolutionary and Physiological Adaptation (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Andrade Meirelles, Lucas — The Nuanced Effects of Redox-Active Metabolites on Bacterial Physiology and Antibiotic Susceptibility (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoenselaar, Andreas — The Structure of Hippocampal Activity During REM Sleep (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lubeck, Eric — Towards in situ Single Cell Systems Biology (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cox, Robert Sidney, III — Transcriptional Regulation and Combinatorial Genetic Logic in Synthetic Bacterial Circuits (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garcia, Hernan G. — Transcriptional Regulation by the Numbers (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mattson, Matthew Sanford — Understanding and Treating Eye Diseases: Mechanical Characterization and Photochemical Modification of the Cornea and Sclera (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))