Jeff Tabor, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering and Biosciences
Lab Manager
Chris Lancaster, MS
Postdocs
Eric Wold, PhD
Rice Bioengineering
Developing inhibitors of bacterial two-component systems that regulate virulence and antibiotic resistance
Cristina Palma
Rice Bioengineering
Decoding bacterial stress responses using optogenetics and mathematical modeling
Bryan Lakey, PhD
Rice Bioengineering
High-throughput characterization of response regulator DNA-binding specificity
Ya Zhang
Rice Bioengineering
Characterization of a novel bacterial neuropeptide sensor
Abbas Ghaddar
Rice Bioengineering
Characterizing host-microbiome interactions for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes
PhD Students
Caleigh Roleck
Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)
Engineering bacteria to respond to host signals
Elena Musteata
Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)
Developing inhibitors of virulence-linked bacterial two-component systems
Maxwell Hunt
Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)
Computational characterization of Two Component Systems
Kevin Lorch
Rice Bioengineering
Screening the human gut microbiome for two-component system diagnostic biosensors
Mitch Syberg-Olsen
Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)
Enzymatic DNA synthesis
Daniel Haller
Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)
Undertanding sporulation in Bacillus subtilis through optogenetics
Jeffrey Alejandro Vanegas
Rice Bioengineering
Engineering bacteria to sense chemical contaminants
Gayathri Prakash
Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)
Protein engineering to enable light-directed functionality
Hasani Everett
Rice Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)
Engineering DNA polymerases to adopt novel nucleotide specificities