Hardware, Software, Wetware, Co-Design Research
Design Automation
Software tools make synthetic biology more effective by integrating concepts from electronic design automation into the specification, design, and assembly of complex biological systems.
Interdisciplinary Approach
CIDAR is composed of a diverse team of undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and research staff from a range of programming, engineering and scientific backgrounds.
Mixed Purpose Workspaces
With both Computational and Wetlab facilities, CIDAR has workspaces for software development and biological engineering research across multiple departments at Boston University.
Latest News
Ali to post-doc in the Fordyce lab at Stanford University
PhD student Ali Lashkaripour has accepted a position as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Polly Fordyce's lab at Stanford University. He will be continuing his work building novel microfluidic technologies. Learn more about the group here: