Danielle Tiullman-Ercek

Northwestern University

Danielle Tullman-Ercek is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at
Northwestern University, Co-Director of the NU Center for Synthetic Biology, and Director of the
Master of Science in Biotechnology Program. She is also Director of SynBREU, the first NSF-funded
Synthetic Biology undergraduate research program. Her research focuses on building biomolecular
devices for various applications, including energy, materials, manufacturing, and medicine. She is
particularly interested in engineering multi-protein complexes, such as virus capsids and machines
transporting proteins and small molecules across cellular membranes.