The Hu Lab
Synbio Dynamical Systems and Feedback Controls
The core of our research is to understand the dynamics of biological systems and their control strategies. We take an experimental-computational hybrid approach to study various dynamical systems in synthetic biology.
Computation and Theory
This is our design foundry, which describes the collection of integrative methods we use to study the system of interest; it provides the theoretical and computational basis for creating novel biosystems with the experimental platforms.
The experimental platforms are the study subjects; they also produce data to support the development and improvement of methods in the foundry.
Silicon-cell Communications
Microbial Populational Control
Cell-free Systems
Latest Updates
07/18/2024 - Our B. megaterium - CMOS arsenic sensor paper preprint is on BioRxiv!
07/01/2024 - Bhavya joined the lab as Ph.D. student! Welcome to the team!
01/15/2024 - Our BSL2 wet lab is officially in operation!
01/01/2024 - Tracy joined the lab as lab manager! Welcome to the team!
10/17/2023 - Yeonhwee and Adetomiwa joined the lab as Ph.D. students! Welcome!
9/25/2023 - We are funded by ARPA-H to apply layered controls to improve the robustness and safety of live bacterial cancer therapeutics.
09/19/2023 - Our silicon-cell paper is officially out on IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
09/01/2023 - Nishwa Patel joins the lab! Welcome, Nishwa!
08/25/2023 - Chelsea gives a talk at BIRS.
01/20/2023 - Chelsea starts as a Visiting Faculty at Caltech for Spring 2023.
11/11/2022 - Chelsea gives a talk at the Fall Texas ASM held at Rice University.
10/14/2022 - Harikrishnan Rajesh Namboothiri joins the lab! Welcome!
10/11/2022 - The Silicon-cell paper submitted by our collaborator is accepted by ISSCC.
9/14/2022 - The layered control paper is officially out! https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33058-6
08/01/2022 - Chelsea starts as the ACES Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX