Our leadership

  • Pam Silver

    Pam is the founder of the HIVE. Her pioneering work in synthetic, systems, and cell biology inspires our vision, philosophy, and practice.

    Learn more about the Silver Lab, here.

  • Mike Springer

    Mike is the co-founder of the HIVE. His work exemplifies the power of mobilizing HMS scientists to solve real-world challenges.

    Learn more about the Springer Lab, here.

  • Quincey Justman

    Quincey is the Lead Research Officer of the HIVE. She believes in the importance of defining biological problems precisely.

    Before joining the HIVE, Quincey was the Editor-in-Chief of Cell Systems.

Our HIVE fellows

  • Neil Dalvie

    Neil engineers microbes for large scale bioprocesses such as mineral weathering and marine carbon sequestration.

  • Michael Cory

    Michael Cory

    Michael develops pipelines for detecting and functionalizing novel metal-binding proteins to enable sustainable bio-mining.

  • Simon d’Oelsnitz

    Simon d’Oelsnitz

    Simon uses data-directed evolution to engineer proteins for chemical measurement in living cells.

Collaborators welcome

The Synthetic Biology Hive welcomes members across Harvard Medical School and the larger Boston research ecosystem committed to tackling the urgent challenges of the 21st century using biological solutions.