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Fernanda Piorino (IntlAssoc)
Research Associate, PREP program
Fernanda Piorino received a B.S. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, both in Chemical Engineering. As a graduate student, she developed bacteria-based biosensors for point-of-care diagnostics and began her journey studying cell-free expression systems. As a PREP postdoctoral associate in the Cellular Engineering Group at NIST, she developed easy-to-run assays for characterizing cell-free transcription and translation to improve the predictability and reproducibility of cell-free systems.
She is currently a PREP Research Associate in the Cellular Engineering Group, now focusing on the use of cell-free systems as a platform for biomanufacturing, prototyping genetic circuits, and studying the effect of cellular components on genetic circuit behavior.