Home Department: Chemical Engineering and Biology
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Christina Smolke, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, and of Chemical Engineering

Christopher Weyant is a rising senior studying chemical engineering and biology. He is working in the Smolke Lab on engineering viruses to selectively kill specific subpopulations of cells based on RNA or protein expression profiles. To accomplish this, he is using riboregulators and riboswitches. In the future he hopes to pursue a PhD and then work on solving problems of medical importance. When not in the lab, he enjoys swimming, writing, and teaching.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 17, 2011:

Engineering Viruses with Riboregulators to Selectively Lyse Cells

Christopher Weyant¹, Josh Michener², Christina Smolke²
[Departments of Chemical Engineering¹ and Bioengineering², Stanford University]