The Programmable Biology Group
We integrate generative AI and experimental protein design to create
programmable platforms for genome, proteome, and cell engineering.

Our Research
Our Team
We program biology to do what we want.

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
MIT (SB '16, SM '18, PhD '20)
Co-Founder of Gameto, Inc.
Co-Founder of UbiquiTx, Inc.

Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD (Fudan '20)

PhD Student
BS (Duke '23)

PhD Student
BS (Georgia Tech '22)

PhD Student
SB (MIT '23)

PhD Student
BS (Kansas '22)

Masters Student
BS (Duke Kunshan '23)

MD-PhD Student
BS (UConn '20)

Undergraduate
Harvard '24

Research Associate
MS (Kyoto U '23)

Undergraduate
Duke '25

PhD Student - Duke NUS
BS (UC Davis '20)

Undergraduate
Duke '26

Undergraduate
UNC '24

Undergraduate
Duke '25

Undergraduate
Duke '27

Undergraduate
Duke '25

Undergraduate
Duke '25
Our Alumni
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Sabrina Koseki, BA (Wellesley '22) → Research Scientist at Novartis
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Kalyan Palepu, AB (Harvard '23) → ML Engineer at D.E. Shaw Research
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Garyk Brixi, AB (Harvard '23) → PhD Student at Stanford
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Emma Tysinger, SB (MIT '23) → M.Eng. Student at MIT
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Teodora Stan, (MIT '24)
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Sue Zhang, (Duke '24)
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Amaris Huang, (Duke '25)
Our Featured Progress




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Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies
Fitzpatrick Center (CIEMAS), Room 2339A
101 Science Drive
Duke University
Durham, NC 27705