• Assistant Professor
Dr. Chelsea Hu

Educational Background

  • Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology — 2022
  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Cornell University — 2018
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles — 2013

Research Interests

    • Microbial populational control and synthetic consortia
    • Biomolecular layered control
    • Silicon-cell communications
    • Multiscale dynamical models
    • Systems identification
    • Cell-free systems

Selected Publications

  • Hu, C. Y. & Murray, R. M. Layered feedback control overcomes performance trade-off in synthetic biomolecular networks. Nat Commun 13, 5393 (2022). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33058-6.pdf
  • Hu, C. Y., Takahashi, M. K., Zhang, Y., & Lucks, J. B. (2018). Engineering a Functional Small RNA Negative Autoregulation Network with Model-Guided Design. ACS Synthetic Biology, 7(6), 1507–1518. http://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.7b00440
  • Hu, C. Y., Varner, J. D., & Lucks, J. B. (2015). Generating Effective Models and Parameters for RNA Genetic Circuits. ACS Synthetic Biology, 4(8), 914–926. http://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.5b00077