Tae Seok Moon

Tae Seok Moon’s research goals are to understand and engineer gene regulatory networks and cellular processes to solve energy, environment, agriculture, and health problems. He has a broad background in systems and synthetic biology, with expertise in development of engineered cells for practical applications. His current projects include (1) engineering probiotic bacteria for medical applications, (2) systems engineering of bacteria to enable production of fuels and chemicals from lignocellulose and waste plastics, (3) developing biocontainment circuits to prevent the GMO spread in the environment, (4) building application-relevant biosensors and dynamic sensor-regulators, and (5) engineering predictable RNA regulators.

He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award (2014), an ONR Young Investigator Award (2017), and a B&B Daniel I.C. Wang Award (2019).