Engineering and Analyzing Multicellular Systems

Recent Progress in Engineering Human-associated Microbiomes.- Constructing Synthetic Microbial Communities to Explore the Ecology and Evolution of Symbiosis.- Combining Engineering and Evolution to Create Novel Metabolic Mutualisms Between Species.- Design, Construction and Characterization Methodologies for Synthetic Microbial Consortia.- An Observation Method for Autonomous Signaling-mediated Synthetic Diversification in Escherichia coli.- Integration-free Reprogramming of Somatic Cells to Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) without Viral Vectors, Recombinant DNA and Genetic Modification.- Transformation of Bacillus subtilis.- Culturing Anaerobes to use as a Model System for Studying the Evolution of Syntrophic Mutualism.- Therapeutic Microbes for Infectious Disease.- Quantitative Measurement and Analysis in a Synthetic Pattern Formation Multicellular System.- Transcriptome Analysis of a Microbial Coculture in which the Cell Populations are Separated by a Membrane.- Identification of Mutations in Laboratory Evolved Microbes from Next-generation Sequencing data using breseq.- 3D-Fluorescence in situ Hybridization of Intact, Anaerobic Biofilm.- The Characterization of Living Bacterial Colonies Using Nano spray Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry.- Modeling Community Population Dynamics with the Open-Source Language R.- Simulating Microbial Community Patterning using Biocellion.