Dr. Beisel is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. Prior to starting his faculty position in 2011, Dr. Beisel earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. His current research focuses on understanding CRISPR-Cas immune systems and how these systems can be harnessed as biomolecular tools and technologies. His efforts have gained multiple awards, including a Life Sciences Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship through the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, an NSF CAREER award, a Bay Area Lyme Foundation Emerging Leader Award, and an NIH Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award. Dr. Beisel is a co-founder of Locus Biosciences and a member of its Scientific Advisory Board.