This is an active list of schools and labs that support graduate study in synthetic biology.

• Boston University
  • Jim Collins, Biomedical Engineering
  • Tim Gardner, Biomedical Engineering
• Caltech
  • Francis Arnold, Chemical Engineering
  • Michael Elowitz, Biology & Applied Physics
  • Christina Smolke, Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering
• Duke
  • Lingchong You, Biomedical Engineering
  • Jingdong Tian
• Harvard Medical School
  • George Church, Genetics
  • Pamela Silver, Systems Biology
• MIT
  • Angela Belcher, Biological Engineering & Materials Science
  • Drew Endy, Biological Engineering
  • Kristala Jones-Prather, Chemical Engineering
  • Tom Knight, EECS and CSAIL
  • Alexander van Oudenaarden, Physics
• Princeton
  • Ron Weiss, EECS and Molecular Biology
• UC Berkeley
  • Adam Arkin, Bioengineering
  • Jay Keasling, Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering
• UC San Francisco
  • Wendell Lim
  • Chris Voigt
• UT Austin
  • Andy Ellington
  • Edward Marcotte
• Vanderbilt University
  • Anthony Forster, Pharmacology and Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology