News: The Foundry is now Asimov Labs! Please find us in our new home at Asimov


Our Team

The Foundry core facility was located in the Broad Institute and was closely embedded with their platforms in DNA sequencing, transcriptomics/proteomics, and chemical screening. It was partnership between the Synthetic Biology Center at MIT (Christopher Voigt, Co-Director) and the Broad Technology Labs (Rob Nicol, Director).  Ben Gordon is the Foundry Director.

Three teams are implemented the pipeline at the core facility:

Design Team

Build Team

Cellular Analytics Team

(Historical info:) Interdisciplinary expertise is brought in through academic and industrial partnerships. Michael Fischbach (UCSF) is an expert in bioinformatics, genome analysis, pathway design, and chemical discovery. Jon Clardy (Harvard) brings in natural product discovery and chemical screening technologies. Aviv Regev (Broad) is developing single cell –omics technologies. Michael Jewett (Northwestern) is developing in vitro assays for intractable organisms and emulsion systems. Douglas Densmore (Boston University) is developing computer aided design (CAD) and pipeline integration software. Tim Lu (MIT) and Angela Belcher (MIT) are applying the Foundry pipeline to phage engineering and novel nanomaterials.
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