{"682975":{"#nid":"682975","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Breakfast Club Seminar ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/winshipcancer.emory.edu\/profiles\/haynes-karmella.php\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKarmella Haynes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAssistant Professor\u003Cbr\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr\u003EEmory University and Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003EKarmella Haynes is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University. She earned her Ph.D. studying epigenetics and chromatin in Drosophila at Washington University, St. Louis. Postdoctoral fellowships at Davidson College and Harvard Medical School introduced her to synthetic biology. Her Davidson HHMI postdoc fellowship project on bacterial computers was recognized as \u201cPublication of the Year\u201d in 2008 by the Journal of Biological Engineering. Today, her research aims to apply the intrinsic properties of chromatin, the DNA-protein structure that packages eukaryotic genes, to engineer proteins and nucleic acids that control cell development. After Haynes joined the faculty at the Emory School of Medicine in 2019, she received an NIH R21 grant (2019) to develop new protein engineering and computational tools for cancer epigenetics, and launched the annual NSF-funded AfroBiotech conference series (2019). She is a founder and instructor of the Cold Spring Harbor Summer Course on Synthetic Biology (2013 \u2013 present), a member of the national Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC, 2014 \u2013 present), past advisor and current Judge Emeritus for the annual International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition (2007 \u2013 present), and a member of the NIH National Scientific Advisory Board for Biosecurity (2021). She was named one of 1000 Inspiring Black Scientists by Cell Mentor (Cell Press 2020), was a featured guest on PBS NOVA (2020) and PRI\u2019s Science Friday (2008, 2016, 2025), was profiled in Forbes magazine (2020), received Color Magazine\u2019s Women of Color: Innovator in STEM award (2021), and was elected into the 2023 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe IBB Breakfast Club Seminar Series was started with the spirit of the Institute\u0027s interdisciplinary mission in mind to feature local IBB faculty member\u0027s research in a seminar format. Faculty are often asked to speak at other universities and conferences, but do not often present at their home institution - this seminar series is an attempt to close that gap. IBB Breakfast Club Seminars are open to anyone in the bio-community.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Engineering Chromatin-based Systems for Programmable Control of Gene Expression\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Engineering Chromatin-based Systems for Programmable Control of Gene Expression\u0022 - Karmella Haynes - Emory University"}],"uid":"35486","created_gmt":"2025-07-01 18:49:10","changed_gmt":"2025-09-03 14:26:35","author":"Christina Wessels","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2025-11-11T08:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2025-11-11T09:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2025-11-11T09:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2025-11-11 13:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2025-11-11 14:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2025-11-11 14:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Petit Biotech Building (IBB), Suddath Seminar Room 1128, 315 Ferst Drive","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"},{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"189814","name":"go-researchevents"},{"id":"190100","name":"go-bio-breakfast"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:connect@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EEvent inquiries\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}