Niles A. Pierce
Niles A. Pierce
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering; Executive Officer for Biology and Biological Engineering
B.S.E., Princeton University, 1993; D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1997. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2000-06; Associate Professor, 2006-10; Professor, 2010-24; MacArthur Professor, 2024-; Acting Executive Officer, 2007; Executive Officer, 2007-13, 2020-.
Research interests: biological engineering, chemical engineering, computational mathematics, molecular programming, chemical biology, synthetic biology
Overview
Engineering small conditional DNAs and RNAs for signal transduction in vitro, in situ, and in vivo; computational algorithms for the analysis and design of nucleic acid structures, devices, and systems; programmable molecular technologies for readout and regulation of the state of endogenous biological circuitry.