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Bio
Hi. My name is Niko, a current PhD student in Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).
I hold a Master of Research (MRes) in Systems and Synthetic Biology from Imperial College London, where I worked with Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro and Tom Ellis. I received my Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Iowa.
I am interested in:
- Ongoing research in synthetic biology // cellular evolution // genome synthesis // genome recoding // biocontainment // genetic circuits
- Lab automation
- Scientific writing
When I'm not working, I am writing.
Top 5 Books:
-The Black Cloud by Sir Fred Hoyle
-The Four Books by Yan Lianke
-Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
-King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
-Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson
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RT @LabTabor: Check out our new paper about swapping bacterial two-component system DNA-binding domains so that they can be more… https://t.co/51d6fYGKVO
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RT @Caltech: While infectious bacteria vary widely, many use the same mechanism to inject toxic molecules into cells. Now,… https://t.co/0lIRrUU2eT
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#synbio shout-out in 1911: "The essential character of the living being is its Form....the task of synthetic biolog… https://t.co/lnV1doK2S7
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RT @gdchure: After 2.5 years of hard work, I'm happy to announce that we have a new preprint! We describe mutations in allosteri… https://t.co/PzgUfGxayB
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RT @zakir_tnimov: Here we come! Chemically synthesised E.coli genome with drastically reduced (57) number codons of Escherichia coli.… https://t.co/XKEebDJJ3A