Biography: Mark Bathe

Professor Bathe obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral Degrees at MIT working in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering before moving to Munich to carry out his postdoctoral research in Biological Physics at the University of Munich. He returned to MIT in 2009 to join the faculty in the Department of Biological Engineering, where he runs a highly interdisciplinary research group focused on developing integrated computational-experimental approaches for engineering biology. Major current thrusts of his group include programming nucleic acids for diverse applications ranging from nanoscale energy transfer circuits to mRNA delivery and cellular imaging, and phenotypic profiling of neuronal circuits using advanced fluorescence imaging.