Javier Santos Moreno Principal Investigator
I studied Biotechnology (MSc from Univ. of Salamanca, Spain) – including an Erasmus stay at the Univ. Geneva, Switzerland – and Laboratory of Clinical Analyses (MSc from Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain). I did my PhD at Collège de France and Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) studying the molecular mechanism of protein secretion in bacteria. I then became passionate about synthetic biology, and devoted my research efforts to build (rather than to observe) biological systems. As a post-doc at the Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland, I developed CRISPRi-based synthetic gene circuits. During my post-doc at Univ. Pompeu Fabra, I engineered the human skin microbiome for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Since 2024, I lead the Synthetic Cell Programming lab, which focuses on developing tools and strategies for programming cell behaviour, both at the fundamental level and for prospective applications.
Out of the lab, I am a sports lover, a passionate traveler, an avid reader, and an amateur volcano extinguisher.
This could be you Post-doc
The group is currently looking for a highly motivated post-doc candidate to work on designing and building synthetic gene circuits to program time in cells, and on characterizing these circuits, fine-tuning them, and connecting them to other circuits / actuator modules.
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This could be you PhD 1
The group is currently looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate (#1) to work on designing and building synthetic gene circuits to program time in cells, and on characterizing these circuits, fine-tuning them, and connecting them to other circuits / actuator modules.
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This could be you PhD 2
The group is currently looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate (#2) to work on developing molecular tools to control and program the behaviour of non-model skin bacteria, on using these tools to develop strains with diagnostic and therapeutic capacity, and on characterizing the potential of the synthetic strains.
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