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