Our primary goal is to expose students and researchers to cutting-edge equipment, allowing them to explore their own scientific inquiries and learn in the process. A secondary goal we have is to integrate the fields of robotics with the biological sciences. Students will have the opportunity to design and program machines that will allow the wet lab to become (almost) fully automated.

Nature is truly incredible. Even at the protein level, organisms create “machines” to execute their functions. One of our interests is using synthetic biology to learn about these organic nano-bots and manipulate them to fulfill some purpose.