Sara Molinari

This paper engineers Escherichia coli to display elastin-like polypeptides, enabling self-assembling living materials with controllable flocculation and ethanol production.

This study evaluates bacterial extracellular vesicles as a tunable platform for vaginal drug delivery, showing effective protein loading and retention in the murine reproductive tract without adverse effects.

This paper demonstrates how to tune gene circuit dynamics in a synthetic microbial consortium by adjusting strain fractions, creating a pulse generator with controllable amplitude.

This paper reports the creation of macroscopic engineered living materials (ELMs) from Caulobacter crescentus cells using a de novo self-interacting protein matrix that can be genetically tuned for mechanical and functional properties.

This paper engineers a two-strain bacterial system to autonomously secrete and assemble a synthetic extracellular protein matrix, demonstrating programmable and high-yield biopolymer secretion.

This paper describes a synthetic genetic circuit in E. coli that enables asymmetric cell division through plasmid partitioning, leading to differentiated daughter cells.