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Prof. James J Collins
Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science
Professor of Biological Engineering
Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Core Founding Faculty, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Primary DLC
Department of Biological Engineering
MIT Room:
E25-337
(617) 324-6607
jimjc@mit.edu
https://be.mit.edu/directory/james-j-collins
Assistant
Ben Hull
(617) 715-2247
blhull@mit.edu
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Synthetic Biology
Systems Biology
Antibiotics
Microbiome
Stem Cell Engineering
Research Summary
The Collins research group works in synthetic biology and systems biology, with a particular focus on using network biology approaches to study antibiotic action, bacterial defense mechanisms, and the emergence of resistance.
Recent Work
Projects
January 20, 2021
Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic)
Discovering Human-Microbiome Protein Interactions with Continuous Distributed Representation
Principal Investigator
James Collins
February 3, 2020
MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing
Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic)
MIT-Takeda Program
Principal Investigator
James Collins
June 22, 2015
Department of Biological Engineering
Collins Lab: Engineered Gene Networks
Principal Investigator
James Collins
Related Faculty
D Ben Gordon
Operational Manager
Dr. Nevin M Summers
Executive Director, MIT Synthetic Biology Center
Allen Tseng
Postdoctoral Associate