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Contact information Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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Education
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Synthetic Biology), Michigan State University, 2022.
B.S. in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, 2018.
Research
My research interests span the fields of synthetic biology, genomics, biochemistry, chemical engineering, applied biotechnology, environmental microbiology, bacteriotherapy, immunology. Current projects involve: 1) designing genetic control of nitrogen fixation that is responsive to several environmental stimuli which can be engineered into a chassis organism to be grafted into natural microbial communities for improved plant host growth and crop production; 2) characterizing microbial communities from several sources and developing high-throughput measures for understanding community dynamics which could be applied to several bioprospecting projects.
Recent publications
1. Greeson, E. M.*, Madsen, C. S.*, Makela, A. V., Contag, C. H. ACS Nano. (2022). Magnetothermal control of temperature-sensitive repressors in superparamagnetic iron nanoparticle-coated Bacillus subtilis.
2. Madsen, C. S.*, Makela, A. V.*, Greeson, E. M., Hardy, J. W., Contag, C. H. Nature Communications Biology. (2022). Engineered endosymbionts that alter mammalian cell surface marker, cytokine and chemokine expression.