Peter Carr,
Senior Staff,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dr. Peter A. Carr is Senior Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he leads the Synthetic Biology research program. His research interests span genome engineering, rapid prototyping of both hardware and wetware, DNA synthesis and error correction, risk evaluation, and biodefense. Dr. Carr received his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Harvard, and his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from Columbia University. Over the past decade he has become especially enamored with the synthetic biology approach—applying engineering principles to biological systems.
The Biomolecular Prototyping Unit (BPU) – Application to Enzyme Design, Personalized Medicine, and Genome Engineering
Wednesday, 30 September 2015 at 17:30
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We are engineering a microfluidic pipeline, the Biomolecular Prototyping Unit (BPU) to rapidly produce and test functions that can be programmed using DNA. Our ultimate goal is to integrate short DNA (oligonucleotide) synthesis, larger scale DNA assembly (to multiple kilobase pairs), on-chip expression (cellular and cell-free options), and diverse assays to quantify the encoded functions. I will present our current progress developing and integrating microfluidic modules for the BPU. Current application areas include [1]. constructing and testing many variants of engineered enzymes; [2]. assessing drug efficacy against a range of potentially resistant viral proteins; and [3]. evaluating designs for extreme genetic codes to be implemented genome-wide in bacteria.
Add to Calendar ▼2015-09-28 00:00:002015-09-30 00:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics and Microarrays World CongressLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics and Microarrays World Congress in San Diego, California, USASan Diego, California, USASELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Add to Calendar ▼2015-09-30 17:30:002015-09-30 18:30:00Europe/LondonThe Biomolecular Prototyping Unit (BPU) – Application to Enzyme Design, Personalized Medicine, and Genome EngineeringLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics and Microarrays World Congress in San Diego, California, USASan Diego, California, USASELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
