University Assistant Professor
Academic Division: Information Engineering
Research group: Control
Telephone: +44 1223 3 32753
Email: sb2330@eng.cam.ac.uk
Research interests
- Design and optimization of synthetic genetic circuits
- Analyzing antibiotic resistance and persistence
- Dissecting microbial interaction at single-cell level
- Developing quantitative biophysical methods: High-throughput time-lapse microscopy, Single molecule imaging, Image analysis, and Microfluidic methods
Strategic themes
Bioengineering
Developing Microfluidic and Microscopic methodologies for analysis of gene-expression in microbes, and microbial eco-systems.
Biography
Somenath Bakshi is a new University Lecturer interested in systems and synthetic biology. He is a single molecule biophysicist by training. He did his PhD in University of Wisconsin Madison under Professor James Weisshaar – developing super-resolution imaging technologies to study central cellular processes in microbes. After finishing his PhD, he moved to Harvard University for his postdoc with Professor Johan Paulsson. During his postdoc Somenath developed high-throughput timelapse imaging technologies of single microbes in controlled complex growth-conditions. Though most of his work has focused on developing methods and approaches to synthetic biology, he remains interested in quantifying the dynamics and control of natural circuits.
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