The Programmable Biology Group
We develop generative algorithms and experimental protein design platforms
for genome, proteome, and cell engineering.
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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 (ECJTU '23)

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

Masters Student
BS (Emory '24)

PhD Student
BS (Georgia Tech '22)

PhD Student
BS (UNC '24)

Incoming PhD Student
BS (Fudan '25)

Undergraduate
Duke '27

PhD Student
BS (Duke '23)

PhD Student
BS (SUNY Binghamton '20)

Research Associate
MS (Kyoto '25)

Undergraduate
Duke '27



Undergraduate
Penn '27
Undergraduate
Princeton '27
Undergraduate
Princeton '29
Our Alumni
Masters Students
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Tianlai (Leo) Chen, MS (Duke '24) → PhD Student at Harvard
Undergraduate Students​
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Sabrina Koseki, BA (Wellesley '22) → PhD Student at Penn
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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 (NSF GRFP)
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Emma Tysinger, SB (MIT '23) → Data Science Engineer at :probabl.
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Teodora Stan, SB (MIT '24) → Software Engineer at Codex Health
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Suhaas Bhat, AB (Harvard '24) → PhD Student at Oxford (Rhodes Scholar)
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Benji Schussheim, BS (Duke '24) → Software Engineer at Microsoft
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Leyao Wang, BS (Vanderbilt '25) → MS Student at Yale
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Kseniia Kholina, BS (Duke '25) → ML Engineer at Ormoni Biosciences
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Pranay Vure, BS (Duke '25) → PhD Student at Penn (NSF GRFP)
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Rishab Pulugurta, BS (Duke '25) → Research Associate at NYU
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Srikar Kavirayuni, BS (Duke '25) → 4+1 MS Student at Duke
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Shubhika Munot, BS (Duke '25) → Research Scientist at BillionToOne
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Ishaan Mehrotra, BS (Duke '25) → 4+1 MS Student at Duke
Our Updates and Progress
Check out our publications here!



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Contact Us!
Feel free to reach out and
learn more about our work!
Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies
Fitzpatrick Center (CIEMAS), Room 2339A
101 Science Drive
Duke University
Durham, NC 27705