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Christina Smolke is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Before starting her position at Caltech, Christina served as a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow in cell biology at UC Berkeley for two years. Dr. Smolke's laboratory is developing novel design platforms for nucleic acid molecules and examining the application of these engineered molecules in diverse areas such as programmed cellular behavior, "intelligent" therapeutics, and nanosensor devices. This research is rapidly advancing current capabilities of assessing and programming cellular state. Dr. Smolke graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering with a minor in biology in 1997. As a National Science Foundation fellow, she attended the University of California at Berkeley and earned her Ph.D. in 2001 in chemical engineering. | 