Kai is passionate about engineering multicellular systems for solving real-world problems. During his PhD with Dr. William Ratcliff at Georgia Tech, Kai discovered the evolution of cell differentiation and whole-genome duplication in the Multicellularity Long-term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE), using multicellular snowflake yeast as a model system. Now as a postdoc in Dr. Ahmad (Mo) Khalil's lab at Boston University, Kai is leveraging both synthetic biology and directed evolution to understand the design principles of multicellularity, with a goal of building novel multicellular systems for real-world applications.
