Faculty Directory
Arthur Prindle

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

312-503-4344Email Arthur Prindle

Website

Prindle Lab


Departments

Chemical and Biological Engineering


Education

Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, CA

B.S., Chemical Engineering, with honors, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA


Research Interests

We are interested in understanding how molecular and cellular interactions give rise to collective behaviors in microbial communities. We use synthetic biology, quantitative microscopy, and microfluidics to directly investigate the molecular mechanisms behind how cells communicate across broad spatial and temporal scales. Our goal is to apply these principles to develop new synthetic biology approaches to biomedical problems through microbiome engineering.


Selected Publications

  • Kennelly, Corey; Tran, Peter; Prindle, Arthur, Environmental purines decrease Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation by disrupting c-di-GMP metabolism, Cell reports (2024).
  • Tran, Peter; Lander, Stephen M.; Prindle, Arthur, Active pH regulation facilitates Bacillus subtilis biofilm development in a minimally buffered environment, mBio (2024).
  • Everett, Blake A.; Tran, Peter; Prindle, Arthur, Toward manipulating serotonin signaling via the microbiota–gut–brain axis, Current Opinion in Biotechnology (2022).
  • Ford, Noah; Fisher, Garth; Prindle, Arthur; Chopp, David, Erratum, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2022).
  • Boyd, Margrethe A.; Davis, Anna M.; Chambers, Nora R.; Tran, Peter; Prindle, Arthur; Kamat, Neha P., Vesicle-Based Sensors for Extracellular Potassium Detection, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (2021).
  • Tran, Peter; Prindle, Arthur, Synthetic biology in biofilms, Biotechnology Progress (2021).
  • Asally, Munehiro; Prindle, Arthur, Microbial Electrophysiology, Bioelectricity 3(2):110 (2021).
  • Quillin, Sarah J.; Tran, Peter; Prindle, Arthur, Potential Roles for Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Signaling in Bacterial Communities, Bioelectricity 3(2):120-125 (2021).