Rate My Professor Ingmar Riedel-Kruse

His research specializes in understanding and engineering multicell systems and behaviors through synthetic biology, biophysics, microbiology, mathematics, and interaction design. The Riedel-Kruse Lab has pioneered interactive biotechnologies, including biotic games, cloud labs for remote experimentation, Lego liquid handling robots, and LudusScope smartphone microscopy to advance science education. Key advancements encompass biofilm lithography for optogenetic cell patterning, synthetic adhesins for programming multicellular morphologies, and microbial fuel cells for methane conversion. Representative publications include "4-bit adhesion logic enables universal multicellular interface patterning" (Nature, 2022), "A genetically encoded adhesin toolbox for programming multicellular morphologies and patterns" (Cell, 2018), "Polygonal motion and adaptable phototaxis via flagellar beat switching in the microswimmer Euglena gracilis" (Nature Physics, 2018), "Biofilm Lithography enables high-resolution cell patterning via optogenetic adhesin expression" (PNAS, 2018), "Interactive and Scalable Biology Cloud Experimentation for Scientific Inquiry and Education" (Nature Biotechnology, 2016), "Synchrony dynamics during initiation, failure and rescue of the segmentation clock" (Science, 2007), and "A self-organized vortex array of hydrodynamically entrained sperm cells" (Science, 2005). He has secured grants as principal investigator for projects on synthetic bacterial adhesions and biofilm lithography and serves on the Executive Committee of the Applied Biosciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program.