- Optimized polyketide synthase engineering platform for designing desired polyketides, using fluorescent reporters.- Independently investigated the directed evolution of PKS components to generate designer polyketides with therapeutic and agricultural applications.- Developed expertise in manipulation of bacterial DNA, isolation of small molecule natural products, and improving the function of small molecule reporters.- Present progress updates daily to supervisor verbally and in writing.

- Designed and constructed a synthetic phosphorylation pathway to reprogram cellular signaling and engineer cells as biosensors with sense-and-response function for cell therapy and diagnostics.- Engineered reporters for signaling circuits to enable rapid detection of extracellular molecules, empowering versatile diagnostics applications.- Developed a high-throughput cloning platform for assemblies of gene circuit libraries.