Welcome to the Tyo lab! Continue scrolling to meet all our lab members. You can hover over each person’s profile to learn more about their research projects and contact information.
Principal Investigator
Keith EJ Tyo
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD Chemical Engineering
West Virginia University, B.S. Chemical Engineering
P: 847.868.0319
Tech E-156
Postdoctoral Fellows
Sai Praneet Batchu
Postdoctoral Fellow (started 2023)
University of Delaware, PhD Chemical Engineering, 2023
IIT Madras, 2018
Project: Kinetic modelling of cell-free metabolic pathways.
PhD Students
Andrew Freiburger
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2023)
(Co-advised with Christopher Henry)
University of Victoria, M.A.Sc. Civil Engineering, 2022
Grand Valley State University, B.S. Chemistry, 2019
Grand Rapids Community College, A.S., 2019
Project: Community metabolic modelling to elucidate microbial ecology
Yara Jabbour Al Maalouf
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2022)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. Chemical Engineering and B.S. Molecular Biology, 2019
Project: Protein engineering
Geoffrey Bonnanzio
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2022)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
University of Delaware, B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2022
Project: Developing computational models for improved pathway design and expression
Yash Chainani
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2021)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
University of California, Berkeley, B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2021
Project: Developing machine learning and deep learning models for biochemical reaction prediction
Stefan Pate
Graduate Student in Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences (started 2023)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
Harvard University, B.A. Neurobiology, 2016
Project: Computational discovery of novel biosynthetic pathways to key small molecules
Tracey Dinh
PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering (started 2018)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2016
Project: Characterizing promiscuity of
carboligase enzymes
Kevin Fitzgerald
Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering (started 2020)
Purdue University, B.S. Biological Engineering, 2020
Project: Engineering Acinetobacter baylyi to overproduce the biopolymer cyanophycin in the context of wastewater treatment
Marija Milisavljevic
PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering (started 2018)
Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2017
Project: Protein Engineering
Kevin Shebek
PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering (started 2019)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
Northwestern University, M.S. Chemical and Biological Engineering, 2019
Pennsylvania State University, B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2015
Project: Computational Metabolic Engineering
Masters Students
Rawia Marafi
MS Candidate in Chemical Engineering (started 2022)
(Co-advised with Linda Broadbelt)
Syracuse University, B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2022
Project: Kinetic modelling of cell-free metabolic pathways
Undergraduate Students
Margaret Guilarte-Silva
Chemical Engineering undergraduate (started 2023)
Project: Computational Metabolic Engineering
Dylan Hakken
Chemical Engineering undergraduate (started 2023)
Project: Experimental Metabolic Engineering