Welcome to the Jensen Lab

Our team of engineers and scientists tackle infectious diseases. We use robotics, genomics, and computation to accelerate microbiology and design new therapies.

News

• November 2024: Our lab received funding from DARPA to build AI agents that learn the functions of unannotated genes.
  
  
• October 2024: Grad student Vasu Rao receives a Tony B Academic Travel Award to attend SLAS 2025.
  
  
• May 2024: Grad students Vasu Rao, Noelle Toong, and Ben David received an Outstanding Poster Award at the Midwest Microbiome Symposium.
  
  
• May 2024: Grad student Ben David receives a poster award at the BME Symposium.
  
  
• April 2024: Austen Bloembergen joins the lab as an undergraduate on our automation team.
  
  
• April 2024: Vasu Rao defended his Masters thesis and was accepted to UM’s BME PhD program.
  
  
• March 2024: Grad student Ben David receives a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.
  
  
• February 2024: Undergraduate Walker Rickord was named a Knight of St. Patrick at UIUC.
  
  
• December 2023: Our lab received new funding from the NSF to build self-driving labs and mechanistic models.
  
  
• October 2023: Our lab presents five posters and a talk at the BMES Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.
  
  
• September 2023: Our lab received an NIGMS Equipment Supplement to purchase a BioTek Cytation 10 automated confocal imaging plate reader.
  
  
• August 2023: Deepthi, Ben, Noelle, Kurt, and Noah passed their qualifying exams and advanced to candidacy.
  
  
• July 2023: Our lab received a START grant from Michigan Engineering to optimize riboflavin production in streptococci.