Farren Isaacs is an assistant professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Systems Biology at Yale University. His research is focused on finding ways to construct new genetic codes and reprogrammable cells that serve as factories for chemical, drug, and biofuel production. As a research fellow in genetics at Harvard, he invented enabling technologies for genome engineering. He received a B.S.E in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering-Bioinformatics at Boston University.