People

My research uses synthetic genomic approaches to explore fundamental questions about genome-phenotype relationships within and between species, as well as to help understand the evolutionary history of life and its diversity. Synthetic genomics is a nascent biological discipline centered on the synthesis of chromosomes and genomes. By enabling new scales and scopes of genetic manipulation, synthetic genomics has the potential to address longstanding biological questions that might not otherwise be answerable.

Email: ian.ehrenreich@usc.edu

Education:

NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow – Princeton University (2008-2011)

Ph.D.; Genetics – North Carolina State University (2008)

B.A.; Human Biology – Stanford University (2002)

I am an emerging bio-data scientist and synthetic biologist working on building the synthetic mitochondrial genome.

Email: jinyelia@usc.edu

Education:

Ph.D.; Biology – University of Iowa (2024)

I am interested in the context dependent effects of genetic perturbations across genetic backgrounds and environments.

Email: ilangold@usc.edu

Education: 

M.A.; Sociology – University of California, Los Angeles (2014)

B.A.; Anthropology – New York University (2009)

I am interested in using synthetic genomics to understand minimal gene sets for life and organellular genetics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Email: chull@usc.edu

Education:

B.A.; Biology – Carthage College (2019)

Synthetic biology – building genomes to answer fundamental biological questions.

Email: dlusk@usc.edu

Education:

B.S.; Biochemistry – University of California, San Diego (2020)

Email: zkrieger@usc.edu

Education:

B.S.; Biological Sciences – University of Washington (2019)

I use synthetic biology to construct & integrate large recombinant loci, enabling functional dissection of the genetic architecture underlying polygenic traits, across multiple organisms.

Email: cjnevill@usc.edu

Education:

Chaffey Community College

B.S.; Biology – Cal State San Bernardino (2018)

M.S. (Thesis); Biology – Cal State San Bernardino (2021)

I am interested in using synthetic biology to understand genetic diversity in the context of fungal persistence in mammalian cells.

Email: babernar@usc.edu

Education: 

B.S.; Biological Sciences – Chapman University (2021)

Email: ahc15951@usc.edu

Education: 

M.A.; French – Middlebury College (2023)

B.S.; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, French – University of Michigan (2020)

Email: emoore13@usc.edu

Education: 

B.S.; Microbiology – University of California, Davis (2020)

Email: jytian@usc.edu

Education:

B.S.; Human Biology – University of Southern California (2024)