Christopher Voigt
| Christopher A. Voigt | |
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| Born | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Citizenship | U.S. |
| Nationality | U.S. |
| Fields | Synthetic Biology |
| Institutions | UCSF, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, California Institute of Technology, University of California - Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Zhen-Gang Wang, Frances Arnold, Stephen Mayo, Adam P Arkin |
Christopher Voigt is an American synthetic biologist, molecular biophysicist, and engineer.[1][2]
Career
Voight is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests focus on the reprogramming of bacterial organisms to perform coordinated, complex tasks for pharmaceutical and industrial applications. He is a member of the National Science Foundation-funded Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, called SynBERC, and works in the developing field of synthetic biology. His recent works include:
- Engineering a bacterial two-component system to regulate gene expression in response to red light.[3]
- Engineering bacteria to sense its environment and conditionally invade cancer cells either when the concentration of bacteria is large enough, when the environment has little oxygen (e.g., inside a tumor), or when a specific chemical is present.[4]
- Constructing a logical AND gate inside bacteria.[5][6]
In 2006, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[7] He is currently Editor-in-Chief of ACS Synthetic Biology.[8]
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References
- ↑ Brogan, Jacob (3 April 2017). "Your Cheat-Sheet Guide to Synthetic Biology" – via Slate.
- ↑ Kwok, Roberta (20 January 2010). "Five hard truths for synthetic biology". 463 (7279): 288–290. doi:10.1038/463288a – via www.nature.com.
- ↑ Levskaya A, Chevalier AA, Tabor JJ, Simpson ZB, Lavery LA, Levy M, Davidson EA, Scouras A, Ellington AD, Marcotte EM, Voigt CA (2005). "Synthetic biology: engineering Escherichia coli to see light". Nature. 438 (7067): 441–2. PMID 16306980. doi:10.1038/nature04405.
- ↑ Anderson JC, Clarke EJ, Arkin AP, Voigt CA (2006). "Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria". J. Mol. Biol. 355 (4): 619–27. PMID 16330045. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2005.10.076.
- ↑ Anderson JC, Voigt CA, Arkin AP (2007). "Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate". Mol. Syst. Biol. 3 (1): 133. PMC 1964800
. PMID 17700541. doi:10.1038/msb4100173. - ↑ "A programming language for living cells".
- ↑ "2006 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2006. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ↑ "ACS Synthetic Biology (ACS Publications)".