Jerome Zürcher (PI)

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Jerome Zürcher is a Group Leader at the Ellison Institue of Technology (EIT).

Jerome completed an undergraduate degree in interdisciplinary sciences at ETH in Zurich, pursuing dissertation research at Harvard Medical School under Prof. Pamela Silver. He also obtained a Master’s degree in interdisciplinary science from ETH, where he was in the Excellence Scholar and Opportunity Programme (ESOP). For his PhD, he worked under Prof. Jason Chin at the MRC LMB, where he developed approaches to rapidly synthesize DNA at the megabase scale and pioneered genetic code refactoring for the bi-directional genetic isolation of organisms. He also was a junior research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and a visiting researcher at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley, CA.

Full list of publications here

Current members

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    Rahan Nazeer

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    PhD University of Cambridge (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Martin Welch)

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    Simon Muerter

    PhD Student

    MSc ETH Zürich (Thesis advisor: Prof. Hiroaki Suga @University of Tokio)

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    Dora Wang

    MSc Student

    HBSc University of Toronto (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Leah Cowen)