I'm a PhD candidate in Biological Design at Arizona State University, where I work on synthetic gene circuits, CRISPR interference, and biomolecular condensates. Outside the lab, I help run Nucleate Arizona and enjoy mentoring early-career scientists.
Integrated dCas9 into the Escherichia coli genome to implement CRISPRi across two gene modules, mitigating Winner-Takes-All (WTA) resource competition and improving synthetic gene circuit predictability. Published in ACS Synthetic Biology (2025).
Read MoreEngineering biomolecular condensates as a strategy to stabilize synthetic gene circuits under growth feedback. Published in Cell (2025).
Read MoreA phylogenetic study of the DNA repair protein Ku across eukaryotes and prokaryotes, using sequence data from NCBI and OrthoDB. Published in PLOS ONE (2025).
Read MoreAn overview of how emerging circuit–host interactions, such as growth feedback and resource competition, impact both deterministic and stochastic circuit behaviors, and their control strategies. Published in Trends in Biotechnology (2025).
Read MoreImplementation of a repressive node to stabilize protein levels and increase the robustness of a bistable circuit in response to growth feedback. Published in Nucleic Acid Research (2025).
Read MoreAn overview on structures and functions of major SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 proteins. Published in Bioinformatics and Biology Insights (2025).
Read MorePhylogenetic analysis of 25 coffee varieties in collaboration with the Coffee Development Center (CDC, Nepal); identified samples as Coffea arabica with 4.3% evolutionary divergence. Published in Journal of Agriculture and Environment (2025).
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