Graduate Student
Harvard Medical School
Patrick Boyle is a synthetic biologist specializing in the network-scale engineering of cellular metabolism. His work at Harvard Medical School has included in silico modeling of yeast metabolism, engineering organelles, improving biohydrogen production, circadian metabolomic analysis, and plant-flavor engineering. Patrick's interest in alternative energy and the environment has led him to the Harvard University Center for the Environment, where he has studied the scientific, engineering, and political challenges to combating climate change. Patrick enjoys teaching and discussing biology with a wide audience, including scientists, policy makers, and the general public. His hobbies include science, digital video, robotics, and science. Relevant keywords include microfluidics, flux balance analysis, -omics, directed evolution, and modular orthogonal robustness.