Creating Model
Biological Systems
Kaznessis, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science, joined the BioTechnology Institute at the beginning
of 2008. He received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering at the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and his PhD from the Dept. of Chemical
Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He joined the University of
Minnesota after completing postdoctoral training at the University of
Michigan and at Pfizer Global Research and Development.
Kaznessis' research efforts focus on synthetic biology. Combining
theoretical and experimental work, Kaznessis and his group design small
therapeutic molecules, such as antimicrobial peptides, and train bacteria to
function like electronic circuits, such as bio-logical AND gates, bacterial
comparators and proportional-integral-differential controllers. The work
also entails the development of computational synthetic biology algorithms
and software packages, like SynBioSS (synbioss.sourceforge.net).
Professor Kaznessis also directs the University of Minnesota Bioinformatics
Summer Institute, a summer undergraduate education program funded by the
National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. For more
information go to www.bsi.umn.edu.
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