Synthetic Biology with Bacteriophages -from Basic Science to Industrial Application

Abstract

I will discuss a bacteriophage engineering platform that we developed to ask fundamental questions about how evolution can generate the tremendous sequence diversity seen in protein sequence repositories. I will also discuss plans to use the platform to engineer new protein machines, as well as bacteriophage for detecting bacteria.

Biography of the speaker

Subu Subramanian (2006 batch, Narmada Hostel) was part of the first batch of biotechnology students at IIT Madras. He got his PhD studying the evolutionary design of proteins at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.