Welcome to the Tyo lab! Continue scrolling to meet all our lab members. You can hover over each person’s profile to learn more about their research projects and contact information.
Principal Investigator
Keith EJ Tyo
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD Chemical Engineering
West Virginia University, B.S. Chemical Engineering
P: 847.868.0319
Tech E-156
Postdoctoral Fellows
Sai Praneet Batchu
Postdoctoral Fellow (started 2023)
University of Delaware, PhD Chemical Engineering, 2023
IIT Madras, 2018
Project: Kinetic modelling of cell-free metabolic pathways.
PhD Students
Andrew Freiburger
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2023)
(Co-advised with Christopher Henry)
University of Victoria, M.A.Sc. Civil Engineering, 2022
Grand Valley State University, B.S. Chemistry, 2019
Grand Rapids Community College, A.S., 2019
Project: Community metabolic modelling to elucidate microbial ecology
Yara Jabbour Al Maalouf
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2022)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. Chemical Engineering and B.S. Molecular Biology, 2019
Project: Protein engineering
Geoffrey Bonnanzio
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2022)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
University of Delaware, B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2022
Project: Developing computational models for improved pathway design and expression
Yash Chainani
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2021)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
University of California, Berkeley, B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2021
Project: Developing machine learning and deep learning models for biochemical reaction prediction
Stefan Pate
Graduate Student in Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences (started 2023)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
Harvard University, B.A. Neurobiology, 2016
Project: Computational discovery of novel biosynthetic pathways to key small molecules
Kevin Fitzgerald
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2020)
Purdue University, B.S. Biological Engineering, 2020
Project: Engineering Acinetobacter baylyi to overproduce the biopolymer cyanophycin in the context of wastewater treatment
Masters Students
Pavel “Pasha” Katsev
MS Candidate in Biotechnology w/ minor in Synthetic Biology (started 2024,)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
Milwaukee School of Engineering, B.S. Industrial Engineering 2007
- Cyanophycin Accumulation in ADP1 for Nitrogen Recovery from Wastewater
- Developing CASP Tools for Biopolymer Enzyme Catalysis with BOTTLE Consortium
Undergraduate Students
Hugh Palin
Computer Science undergraduate (started 2024)
Project: Computational Protein Folding