Mark Mimee
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
University of Chicago
Mark Mimee’s research focuses on developing strategies to precisely engineer the activity and composition of the microbiota. By genetically manipulating commensal microbes, he seeks to create living devices that can serve as biosensors to probe the structure and function of the microbiome and as cell-based therapeutics for infectious and inflammatory disease. Additionally, he develops approaches to augment the natural properties of viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophage, to create novel therapies for antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. His long-term vision is to implement these synthetic biology technologies to chart new basic and translational studies to exploit the microbiota for human health.
Training
- BSc, 2011, McGill University, Microbiology & Immunology
- PhD, 2018, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Microbiology
- Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Synthetic Biology