This committee of 22 members is charged with reviewing the seed grants and naming the awardees. The faculty in this committee are from 17 different departments. Harvey Cohen is the Chair of the Seed Grant Review Committee.
Dr. Smolke's research program focuses on developing modular genetic platforms for programming information processing and control functions in living systems, resulting in transformative technologies for engineering, manipulating, and probing biological systems.
The Ting lab develops technologies to study the molecular properties of living cells. They apply the technologies to understand signaling in the mitochondria and neuronal synapse.