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Christina D. Smolke

smolke at cheme dot caltech dot edu

Christina is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Caltech. She graduated from USC with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering with an emphasis in Biology in 1997. She then attended the University of California at Berkeley and earned her Ph.D. in 2001 in Chemical Engineering under Professor Jay D. Keasling. Before starting her position at Caltech, Christina conducted a two year postdoctoral fellowship in the Cell Biology Department at UC Berkeley under the guidance of Professor Karsten Weis.

[http://www.che.caltech.edu/groups/cds/curriculum_vitae.pdf Curriculum vitae]

Awards and Honors

California Institute of Technology

2006 NSF CAREER Award
2005 Beckman Young Investigator Award
2004 Technology Review’s TR100, Top 100 Young Innovators of the World

University of California at Berkeley

2002 Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship (Declined)
2001-2003 National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship
2001 Graduated Summa Cum Laude
2000-2001 UC Dissertation Year Fellowship
2000-2001 Shell Doctoral Fellowship
1999-2000 Chemical Engineering Departmental Citation for Outstanding Teaching
1998 DOW Prize for Excellence in Teaching
1998-1999 University Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor
1997-2000 National Science Foundation Fellowship
1997 Tau Beta Pi Fellowship No. 584 (Declined)
1997 Eugene Cota – Robles Fellowship (Declined)
1997 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Honorable Mention

University of Southern California

1997 Graduated Summa Cum Laude
1997 Salutatorian
1997 Wall of Scholars
1997 Emma Josephine Bradely Bovard Award
1997 Chemical Engineering’s Outstanding Student Award
1997 Senior Recognition Award
1997 School of Engineering’s Outstanding Service Award
1996 Golden Key Peat Marwick Junior Scholarship
1996 Unocal Scholarship
1995 Southern California Section AIChE Outstanding Junior Award
1996 Student Chapter AIChE Outstanding Junior Award
1995-1996 Excellence Award in Biochemistry
1994 Emerging Leaders Program
1993-1994 Outstanding Achievement Award in General Chemistry
1993-1997 Merit Research Award
1993-1997 Trustee Scholar Award
1993 Dean’s Scholarship

Affiliations

American Chemical Society
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Center for Biological Circuit Design (Caltech)
Institute for Biological Engineers
Kavli Nanoscience Institute (Caltech)
RNA Society