LBNL Staff Scientist

cajo-franklin@lbl.gov
phone: 510-486-4299

Education
BS, Chemistry, Emory University
PhDm Chemistry, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Major Awards
NIH Training Grant in Tumor Cell Biology, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2005-7.
Stanford Department of Chemistry Evelyn Laing McBain Fellowship, 2001.
NIH Graduate Training in Biotechnology Fellowship, 1998.
General Electric Faculty for the Future Fellowship, 1997.
American Chemical Society Minority Scholar, 1996-7.
Chris Yannapoulos Scholar, Emory University, 1993-7.

General Research Interests
Biological systems precisely create and order structures on the nanoscale, endowing a variety of functionalities upon these assemblies. My research seeks to harness the precise ordering and diverse functionality of biological systems to synthesize and assemble novel nanostructured materials. My long-term vision is to genetically reconfigure individual functional biomolecules and living cells into engineered elements and to seamlessly interface them at the nanoscale with human-made components, thus creating a new class of smart, self-renewing materials.

MSD Research Projects:

Molecular Foundry: the Biological Nanostructures Facility program

Personal website:
http://www.foundry.lbl.gov/science/bio/bio_staff_ajo_franklin.html
http://www.ajofranklin.com
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Ajo-Franklin

Figure: Scanning electron micrograph of engineered protein nanofilaments grown by Escherichia coli