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.
The design foundry 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 and Synthetic Cells
Latest Updates
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 living bacterial cancer therapeutics.
09/19/2023 - Our silicon-cell paper in 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