Principal Investigator James Collins
Project Website http://collinslab.mit.edu/index.html
The Collins Lab is focused on two areas of research:
(*) SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY -- We are designing and constructing synthetic gene networks for a variety of biotechnology and medical applications, with a particular focus on the detection and treatment of infectious diseases.
(*) SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND ANTIBIOTICS -- We are using network biology approaches to study antibiotic action, bacterial defense mechanisms, and the emergence of antibiotic resistance.
The Lab is part of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and the Department of Biological Engineeirng at MIT, the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST), the Broad Institue of MIT and Harvard, and the Wyss Institute for Bioloigaclly Inspired Engineering of Harvard University. At MIT, the Lab is also part of the Synthetic Biology Center, the Computation and Systems Biology Initiative and the Microbiology (CSBi) Graduate Program.