Christopher Voigt

Last updated
Christopher A. Voigt
Christopher Voigt 2.png
Christopher Voigt at the Office of Naval Research, 2016
Born
Nationality U.S.
Citizenship U.S.
Alma mater University of Michigan
California Institute of Technology
University of California - Berkeley
Scientific career
Fields Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Biological Engineering
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UCSF
Doctoral advisor Zhen-Gang Wang, Frances Arnold, Stephen Mayo, Adam P Arkin (Postdoctoral)

Christopher Voigt is an American synthetic biologist, molecular biophysicist, and engineer. [1] [2]

Contents

Career

Voigt is the Daniel I.C. Wang Professor of Advanced Biotechnology in the Department of Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He works in the developing field of synthetic biology. He is the co-director of the Synthetic Biology Center [3] at MIT and the co-founder of the MIT-Broad Foundry. [4] [5]

His research interests focus on the programming of cells to perform coordinated and complex tasks for applications in medicine, agriculture, and industry. His works include:

In addition, he is the:

His former students have founded Asimov [36] (mammalian synthetic biology), De Novo DNA [37] (computational design), Bolt Threads [38] (spider silk-based textiles), Pivot Bio [39] (agriculture), and Industrial Microbes [40] (methane consuming organisms).

References

  1. Brogan, Jacob (3 April 2017). "Your Cheat-Sheet Guide to Synthetic Biology". Slate via Slate.
  2. Kwok, Roberta (20 January 2010). "Five hard truths for synthetic biology". Nature. 463 (7279): 288–290. doi: 10.1038/463288a . PMID   20090726.
  3. "MIT Synthetic Biology Center".
  4. "MIT-Broad Foundry".
  5. "DARPA Gives MIT Lab $32 Million To Program Living Cells". Popular Science. 2015. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  6. Tamsir A, Tabor JJ, Voigt CA (2011). "Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical 'wires'". Nature. 469 (7329): 212–5. Bibcode:2011Natur.469..212T. doi:10.1038/nature09565. PMC   3904220 . PMID   21150903.
  7. Lou C, Stanton BC, Chen YJ, Munsky B, Voigt CA (2012). "Ribozyme-based insulator parts buffer synthetic circuits from genetic context". Nature Biotechnology. 30 (11): 1137–42. doi:10.1038/nbt.2401. PMC   3914141 . PMID   23034349.
  8. Brophy JA, Voigt CA (2014). "Principles of genetic circuit design". Nature Methods. 11 (5): 508–20. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2926. PMC   4230274 . PMID   24781324.
  9. Yang L, Nielsen AA, Fernandez-Rodriguez J, McClune CJ, Laub MT, Voigt CA (2014). "Permanent genetic memory with >1-byte capacity". Nature Methods. 11 (12): 1261–6. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3147. PMC   4245323 . PMID   25344638.
  10. Moon TS, Lou C, Tamsir A, Stanton BC, Voigt CA (2012). "Genetic programs constructed from layered logic gates in single cells". Nature. 491 (7423): 249–53. Bibcode:2012Natur.491..249M. doi:10.1038/nature11516. PMC   3904217 . PMID   23041931.
  11. Anderson JC, Voigt CA, Arkin AP (2007). "Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate". Mol. Syst. Biol. 3 (1): 133. doi:10.1038/msb4100173. PMC   1964800 . PMID   17700541.
  12. "A programming language for living cells". Phys.org . Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  13. "Cello Software".
  14. Nielsen AA, Der BS, Shin J, Vaidyanathan P, Paralanov V, Strychalski EA, Ross D, Densmore D, Voigt CA (2016). "Genetic circuit design automation". Science. 352 (6281): aac7341. doi: 10.1126/science.aac7341 . PMID   27034378.
  15. Fernandez-Rodriguez J, Moser F, Song M, Voigt CA (2017). "Engineering RGB color vision into Escherichia coli". Nature Chemical Biology. 13 (7): 706–8. doi:10.1038/nchembio.2390. PMID   28530708.
  16. Levskaya A, Weiner OD, Lim WA, Voigt CA (2009). "Spatiotemporal control of cell signalling using a light-switchable protein interaction". Nature. 461 (7266): 997–1001. Bibcode:2009Natur.461..997L. doi:10.1038/nature08446. PMC   2989900 . PMID   19749742.
  17. Levskaya A, Chevalier AA, Tabor JJ, Simpson ZB, Lavery LA, Levy M, Davidson EA, Scouras A, Ellington AD, Marcotte EM, Voigt CA (2005). "Synthetic biology: engineering Escherichia coli to see light". Nature. 438 (7067): 441–2. Bibcode:2005Natur.438..441L. doi:10.1038/nature04405. PMID   16306980. S2CID   4428475.
  18. Stanton BC, Nielsen AA, Tamsir A, Clancy K, Peterson T, Voigt CA (2014). "Genomic Mining of Prokaryotic Repressors for Orthogonal Logic Gates". Nat Chem Biol. 10 (2): 99–105. doi:10.1038/nchembio.1411. PMC   4165527 . PMID   24316737.
  19. Chen YJ, Liu P, Nielsen AA, Brophy JA, Clancy K, Peterson T, Voigt CA (2013). "Characterization of 582 natural and synthetic terminators and quantification of their design constraints". Nature. 10 (7): 659–64. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2515. PMID   23727987. S2CID   205421681.
  20. Salis H, Mirsky E, Voigt CA (2009). "Automated Design of Synthetic Ribosome Binding Sites to Precisely Control Protein Expression". Nature Biotechnology. 27 (10): 946–50. doi:10.1038/nbt.1568. PMC   2782888 . PMID   19801975.
  21. Anderson JC, Clarke EJ, Arkin AP, Voigt CA (2006). "Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria". Journal of Molecular Biology. 355 (4): 619–27. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.161.6839 . doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2005.10.076. PMID   16330045.
  22. Mimee M, Tucker A, Voigt CA, Lu TK (2015). "Programming a Human Commensal Bacterium, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, to Sense and Respond to Stimuli in the Murine Gut Microbiota". Cell Systems. 1 (1): 62–71. doi:10.1016/j.cels.2015.06.001. PMC   4762051 . PMID   26918244.
  23. Temme K, Zhao D, Voigt CA (2012). "Refactoring the nitrogen fixation gene cluster from Klebsiella oxytoca". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 109 (18): 7085–7090. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.7085T. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1120788109 . PMC   3345007 . PMID   22509035.
  24. Smanski MJ, Bhatia S, Zhao D, Park Y, Woodruff LB, Giannoukos G, Ciulla D, Busby M, Calderon J, Nicol R, Gordon DB, Densmore D, Voigt CA (2014). "Functional optimization of gene clusters by combinatorial design and assembly". Nature Biotechnology. 32 (12): 1241–9. doi:10.1038/nbt.3063. PMID   25419741. S2CID   6527069.
  25. Smanski MJ, Zhou H, Claesen J, Shen B, Fischbach MA, Voigt CA (2016). "Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity". Nat Rev Microbiol. 14 (3): 135–149. doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2015.24. PMC   5048682 . PMID   26876034.
  26. Temme K, Zhao D, Voigt CA (2012). "Refactoring the nitrogen fixation gene cluster from Klebsiella oxytoca". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 109 (18): 7085–7090. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.7085T. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1120788109 . PMC   3345007 . PMID   22509035.
  27. Widmaier DM, Tullman-Ercek D, Mirsky EA, Hill R, Govindarajan S, Minshull J, Voigt CA (2009). "Engineering the Salmonella type III secretion system to export spider silk monomers". Mol Syst Biol. 5 (309): 309. doi:10.1038/msb.2009.62. PMC   2758716 . PMID   19756048.
  28. Zhou H, Vonk B, Roubos JA, Bovenberg RA, Voigt CA (2015). "Algorithmic co-optimization of genetic constructs and growth conditions: application to 6-ACA, a potential nylon-6 precursor". Nucleic Acids Res. 43 (21): 10560–70. doi:10.1093/nar/gkv1071. PMC   4666358 . PMID   26519464.
  29. Elbaz J, Yin P, Voigt CA (2016). "Genetic encoding of DNA nanostructures and their self-assembly in living bacteria". Nature Communications. 7: 11179. Bibcode:2016NatCo...711179E. doi:10.1038/ncomms11179. PMC   4838831 . PMID   27091073.
  30. "Synberc".
  31. "Ebrc".
  32. "ACS Synthetic Biology". ACS Publications.
  33. "Asimov". asimov.io.
  34. "PivotBio".
  35. "Synthetic Biology: Engineering Evolution and Design (SEED)". 2017-08-28.
  36. "Asimov - Intelligent Design".
  37. "De Novo DNA".
  38. "Bolt Threads".
  39. "Pivot Bio".
  40. "Industrial Microbes".