ESP Biography



CHRISTINA AGAPAKIS, Harvard grad student in synthetic biology



Major: Systems Biology

College/Employer: Harvard Medical School

Year of Graduation: Not available.

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I'm a fourth year graduate student interested in what living things can do and what they can be engineered to do. My work focuses on developing new biological systems as engineering tools and making bacteria into energy producing factories. I'm very excited to share the exciting new field of synthetic biology with you and for us work together to design new organisms!



Past Classes

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S3349: Synthetic Biology in HSSP Spring 2010 (Apr. 17, 2010)
Synthetic biology is a new and exciting field of genetic engineering, with scientists designing new organisms to make medicines, fuels, and all kinds of other stuff. In this course we'll learn how to cut and paste DNA, what scientists are doing in labs around the world today, what the future of synthetic biology might look like, and design our own organisms.