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Michael Elowitz is Assistant Professor of Biology and Applied Physics at the California Institute for Technology. His lab is interested in how living cells respond to their environment, communicate with one another, and develop into multicellular organisms. Dr. Elowitz's research focuses on how these tasks are accomplished using the network of interacting genes and proteins contained in the cell and in the opposite question of how novel networks can be engineered within cells to implement alternative cellular behaviors using a combination of experimental and theoretical techniques. His lab will build on these methodologies and develop new techniques for improved understanding of the structure and function of the genetic networks produced by evolution, while at the same time, learning how to create synthetic networks that generate novel behaviors in and among cells. | 