Gerd Moe-Behrens

Gerd Moe-Behrens has a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway. During a brief Post Doc at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany his scientific focus was on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. This work introduced him to Systems Biology. This was the starting point for his interest in Synthetic Biology with a special focus on biocomputing. He started to join the Apple developer program, focused on dry lab work and work on an Apple platform (main focus :xcode, objective c). He then founded the Leukippos Institute for Synthetic Biology, a research institute solely in the cloud. He has a strong interest to explore novel forms of scientific work on a web platform. The work of the Leukippos Institute has been presented on the SpotOn blog by the scientific journal Nature. Moreover, he is founder and CEO of CytoComp, a young startup focusing on biological computing. His personal research interests are computer assisted design, morphogenesis and biological computers.

June 2013