Bio
Felix Horns is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Stanford University and a Core Investigator at Arc Institute. The Horns group works at the interface of synthetic biology and genomics to develop and apply technologies for monitoring and manipulating cells, with particular focus on the immune system and the brain.
Felix earned his B.A. in Biology from Amherst College and his Ph.D. in Biophysics working with Dr. Stephen Quake at Stanford, where he developed and used single-cell genomics, high-throughput sequencing, and computational analysis approaches to understand the origins of human antibody diversity and to discover principles of how brain circuits assemble during development. He then joined Dr. Michael Elowitz's lab at the California Institute of Technology where he combined synthetic biology and genomics approaches to develop RNA packaging, secretion, and delivery systems, which open new avenues for understanding and controlling cellular behaviors.
