Poster #41 - Ting Lu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Biography

Dr. Ting Lu is an associate professor in the Department of Bioengineering and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received a BSc in physics from Zhejiang University in 2002 and Ph.D. in Biophysics from UC-San Diego in 2007. Prior to joining UIUC in 2011, Dr. Lu was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton, MIT, and Wyss Institute at Harvard. Dr. Lu’s research focuses on synthetic biology -- the analysis, construction and utilization of bacterial gene networks for cellular functionality programming. In particular, he is interested in mathematical modeling and experimental construction of microbial ecosystems. He has received several awards for his research, including ONR Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award, and Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.