Molecular Technologies is a non-profit academic resource within the Beckman Institute at Caltech that develops and supports programmable molecular technologies for reading out and regulating the state of endogenous biological circuitry.
The Molecular Technologies team has designed and synthesized custom HCR imaging kits for researchers in hundreds of laboratories worldwide. Molecular Technologies papers have been cited over 2000 times.
Molecular Technologies is a non-profit academic resource within the Beckman Institute at Caltech that develops and supports programmable molecular technologies for reading out and regulating the state of endogenous biological circuitry.
The Molecular Technologies team has designed and synthesized custom HCR imaging kits for researchers in hundreds of laboratories worldwide. Molecular Technologies papers have been cited over 2000 times.
Molecular Technologies is a non-profit academic resource within the Beckman Institute at Caltech that develops and supports programmable molecular technologies for reading out and regulating the state of endogenous biological circuitry.
The Molecular Technologies team has designed and synthesized custom HCR imaging kits for researchers in hundreds of laboratories worldwide. Molecular Technologies papers have been cited over 2000 times.
Lab Members
Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering
Executive Officer for Biology & Biological Engineering

Sheldon Zhu
PhD student
Bioengineering
Postdoctoral Scholar Alumni
Dr. Mikhail Hanewich-Hollatz 8/2019-3/2020
Associate Director of Research and Development, Curative
Dr. Vikas Trivedi 7/2015-2/2016
Group Leader, EMBL Barcelona
Dr. Lisa Hochrein 8/2013-6/2017
Senior Scientist, Evozyne
Dr. Jonathan Sternberg 7/2013-6/2014
Associate Director of Product Management, Natera
Dr. Jeffrey Vieregg 2/2008-10/2013
Staff Scientist, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago
Dr. Tobias Heinen 11/2010-3/2012
Doctor, University Hospital Cologne
Dr. Victor Beck 12/2007-1/2012
Research Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Peng Yin 2005-09
Professor, Harvard Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Justin Bois 2007
Teaching Professor, Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech
Dr. Jennifer Padilla 2004-07
Artist
Dr. Robert Dirks 2005-06
Research Scientist, DE Shaw Research; deceased
Dr. Jong-Shik Shin 2002-06
Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University, South Korea
Graduate Student Alumni
Dr. Zhewei Chen
PhD, Bioengineering, 2023
Dr. Jining Huang
PhD, Bioengineering, 2022
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech
Dr. Mark Fornace
PhD, Chemistry, 2021
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech
Dr. Nicholas Porubsky
PhD, Chemical Engineering, 2019
Data Scientist, Vectra AI
PhD, Bioengineering, 2019
Associate Director of Research and Development, Curative
PhD, Bioengineering, 2016
Head of Commercial, Molecular Instruments, Inc.
PhD, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, 2015
Director, Corporate Strategy & Chief of Staff, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc.
PhD, Bioengineering, 2015
Group Leader, EMBL Barcelona
PhD, Bioengineering, 2014
Software Engineering, Airbnb
PhD Chemical Engineering and Biology, 2013
Senior Scientist, Evozyne
PhD, Biology, 2013
Technology Lead and Head of Technology Support, Molecular Instruments, Inc.
PhD, Bioengineering, 2013
Associate Director of Product Management, Natera
PhD, Bioengineering, 2010
Advisor, Former Airbnb VP of Product & Head of Airbnb Experiences
PhD, Bioengineering, 2009
Founder & CEO, Molecular Instruments, Inc.
Dr. Jonathan Othmer
PhD, Applied & Computational Mathematics, 2008
Research Associate, Morgan Stanley
PhD, Chemical Engineering, 2007
Teaching Professor, Biology & Biological Engineering, Caltech
PhD, Chemistry, 2005
Research Scientist, DE Shaw Research; deceased
Undergraduate Student Alumni
Katelyn Lee 2021, 2022 (Bioengineering, Caltech)
Lachlan Deimel 2019 (Human Biology, Australian National University)
DPhil student, University of Oxford
Yuhang Xie 2019 (Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge)
Consultant, TTP
Bergthor Traustason 2017 (Engineering Physics, University of Iceland)
DPhil student, University of Oxford
Andrew Hou 2015, 2016 (Bioengineering, Caltech)
Yoon Lee 2015 (Applied & Computational Mathematics, Caltech)
PhD student, University of California, Berkeley
Rachael Morton 2015 (Computer Science, Caltech)
Software Engineer, Reddit, Inc.
Siva Gangavarapu 2015 (Electrical Engineering, Caltech)
FPGA Engineer, Optiver
Ann Chen 2015 (Bioengineering, Caltech)
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina
Dr. Jocelyn (Josie) Kishi 2014 (Computer Science, Caltech)
Co-Founder and CEO, stealth mode
Aditya Bhagavathi 2013 (Chemical Engineering, Caltech)
Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
Eli Weinstein 2013 (Chemistry and Physics, Harvard University)
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University
Dr. Tianjia Jessie Ge 2012(Bioengineering, Caltech)
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Stanford University Medical School
Kanenori (Kane) Okamoto 2011
Dr. Fei Chen 2010 (Electrical Engineering and Biology, Caltech)
Assistant Professor, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University; Core Faculty, Broad Institute
Dr. Arjun Ravikumar 2010 (Bioengineering, Caltech)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Boston University
Dr. Asif Khan 2009 (Electrical Engineering, Caltech)
Founder, stealth mode
Alex Hudson 2008 (Applied Physics, Caltech)
Dr. Connie Gao 2008 (Chemical Engineering, Caltech)
Lead Data Scientist, Boston Consulting Group
Dr. Sarah Hunt 2008 (Chemical Engineering, Caltech)
Special Programs Manager, Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics
Fabian Dias 2007, 2008 (Mathematics, Caltech)
Dr. Max G'Sell 2007 (Physics, Caltech)
Assistant Professor, Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Jiaqi Guo 2007 (Applied Physics, Caltech)
Software Engineering Manager, Meta
Dr. Cole Johnson 2006 (Biomedical Engineering, Tulane)
Director, Strategic Growth, Dimension Inx
Dr. Baixue Zheng 2005 (Caltech)
Director of Data Analysis, Genometry, Inc.
Dr. Timothy Wannier 2003, 2004 (Biology, U Penn)
Co-Founder, Wild Microbes
Dr. Isaac See 2002 (Caltech)
Team Lead, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Milo Lin 2002 (Caltech)
Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Ryan Simkovsky 2000 (Caltech)
Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Algenesis Materials