Nathan Hillson
Computational Senior Staff Scientist
Building: 978, Room 4128
Mail Stop: 978R4121
Phone: (510) 486-6754
NJHillson@lbl.gov
https://www.jbei.org/people/directors_and_scientific_leads/nathan-hillson/
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Research Interests
To develop and demonstrate experimental wetware, software, and laboratory automation devices that facilitate, accelerate, and standardize the engineering of microbes.
Recent Publications
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Agile BioFoundry Hosts 2023 Industry Listening Day
The Agile BioFoundry (ABF) hosted its 2023 Industry Listening Day on July 31, 2023. ABF staff shared updates on the consortium’s latest research, partnership opportunities, and the ABF’s future direction.
JBEI Paper Awarded ‘Publication of the Year’ by the Journal of Biological Engineering
The 2016 Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) publication “End-to-end automated microfluidic platform for synthetic biology: from design to functional analysis” has been selected as the Journal of Biological Engineering Publication of the Year. Gregory Linshiz, former post-doctoral researcher and Director of Synthetic Biology Informatics Nathan Hillson conceived the project that served as the basis of this research. In the paper the authors present a programmable, multipurpose microfluidic platform and associated software and apply the platform to major steps of the synthetic biology research cycle: design, construction, testing, and analysis. The formal announcement of the award will be made at this year's Annual Meeting of Institute of Biological Engineering (March 30 - April 1, in Salt Lake City, UT).
BETO Announces Agile BioFoundry
On October 1, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) established the Agile BioFoundry (ABF)—a new consortium of nine Energy Department national laboratories working to standardize and streamline the entire biomanufacturing pipeline by uniting computer-assisted biological pathway design, process integration, process scale-up, and machine learning. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is leading the consortium, which will achieve its goals by developing a system for product development and commercialization that will be broadly applicable to many bioproducts. BSE's Computational Staff Scientist Nathan Hillson is heading up Berkeley Lab's efforts, joined by task managers Blake Simmons and Todd Pray. For more information about the Agile BioFoundry, read this BETO blog post.
