Prasaad Milner

Barbara McClintock Postdoctoral Fellow

Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
P.O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185

Biography

Prasaad works on engineering synthetic decision-making in living organisms for applications in bioeconomy, biosensing and therapeutics. His work incorporates genetic engineering, protein engineering, and microbiology principles to construct and regulate synthetic gene networks in non-model bacteria.

Education

BS, Chemical Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 2018

BS, Biological Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 2018

PhD, Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2024

Research Interests

Synthetic biology
Genetic circuits
Transcriptional gene regulation
Microbiome engineering

Publications

Performance prediction of fundamental transcriptional programs. PT Milner, Z Zhang, ZD Herde, NR Vedire, F Zhang, MJ Realff, CJ Wilson. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12 (4), 1094-1108

Next generation synthetic memory via intercepting recombinase function. AE Short, D Kim, PT Milner, CJ Wilson. Nature communications. 14 (1), 5255

Biomolecular systems engineering: Unlocking the potential of engineered allostery via the lactose repressor topology. TM Groseclose, RE Rondon, AN Hersey, PT Milner, D Kim, F Zhang, … Annual Review of Biophysics. 50 (1), 303-321