Lacra Bintu

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Lacra Bintu is Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University and a member of the Biophysics Program and Bio-X Institute at Stanford. Lacra is part of the 4D Nucleome Consortium through a collaborative grant on Real-Time Chromatin Dynamics and Function and serves as co-chair of the 4DN Imaging Working Group. Her lab is also supported by a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and a collaborative Novel Genomic Technology Development R01 Grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute.Lacra is involved in the organizing committee for the International Conference on Epigenetics and Bioengineering (EpiBio) and the International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop (mSBW).Lacra started working on the theory of gene regulation as an undergraduate with Jané Kondev from Brandeis University and Rob Phillips from the California Institute of Technology. She graduated summa cum laude with majors in Physics, Mathematics, and Neuroscience from Brandeis University, where she was supported by the Wien International Scholarship.As a Physics Ph.D. student in the lab of Carlos Bustamante at the University of California Berkeley, she used single-molecule methods (optical tweezers and atomic force microscopy) to tease apart the molecular mechanisms of transcription through nucleosomes. She won the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for outstanding achievement during graduate studies.

Talks About
#Biophysics #FluorescenceMicroscopy #Microscopy

Preferred Locations
#UnitedStates