PROMOTING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN INDIA AND THE U.S.
Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology
Rice University
Jeff Tabor builds synthetic signaling circuits to engineer biological behaviors such as multicellular pattern formation and social interactions. Tabor takes an engineering approach by using cellular sensors and synthetic gene circuits to control genes of interest in tractable model organisms. Because these control systems are constructed in a step-wise fashion, they are amenable to rigorous characterization and optimization. This allows the development of well-parameterized mathematical models that increase the predictability of the design process in synthetic biology. Reprogramming how cells respond to their environment and interact with one another is of interest to basic science and has broad biomedical and industrial applications.