Biography
Jean-Baptiste Lugagne's research explores the development of cell-machine interfaces to precisely control and optimise biological processes for Engineering Biology applications. He holds a Master’s degree in Signal Processing Engineering and earned his PhD in Synthetic Biology from Université Sorbonne Paris Cité. He then conducted postdoctoral research at Boston University, where he focused on high-throughput single-cell control of gene expression. He joined the department in December 2024.
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Research Interests
Jean-Baptiste Lugagne's group develops and uses advanced engineering solutions to study, design, and optimise biological systems for biomanufacturing and biomedical applications.
Key areas include:
- Systems and synthetic biology
- Biological control systems
- Biomanufacturing
- Smart microscopy
- Microfluidics
- Computer vision for biomedical data
