Our Team
The people behind Lattice
Doug is an expert in Synthetic Biology and one of the founders of Bio-Design Automation (BDA) as a discipline. He is currently the Tegan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow, a Biological Design Center founding member, and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He is an NSF CAREER Award recipient, AIMBE Fellow, and is an affiliated PI with the Engineering Biology Research Center. Related activities include: President of the Bio-Design Automation Consortium; President of the Nona Research Foundation; Founder and general chair of the International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA); Director of the Design Automation, Manufacturing, and Processes (DAMP) Lab; and former NSF Expeditions in Computing Lead PI (“Living Computing Project”).
Doug Densmore, Ph.D.
Co-founder and President
Kevin holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Boston University and a B.S. in Physiology and Neurobiology from the University of Connecticut. He contributed to core software — APIs, algorithms, visualization tools, and UIs — in the Cross-disciplinary Integration of Design Automation Research (CIDAR) lab. He is the recipient of an NSF SBIR Phase I award: “Commercialization of Bio-Design Automation Software for Synthetic Biology” and an NSF SBIR Phase II award: “Fully Integrated Design and Automated Fabrication Services Software Platform for Engineering Living Systems.” Kevin joined Lattice as its founding engineer, contributing to the company’s earliest customer projects and core tools like SeqViz. He’s a full-stack developer with a sharp design sensibility who bridges engineering, business, and leadership.
Kevin LeShane
Vice President
Guzman obtained a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from Northeastern University and has a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay). In 2018, he was granted the Fulbright Scholarship and came to the United States to study his Master’s degree. After having graduated in 2021, he joined Lattice Automation as a Software Engineer. Guzman has experience in full-stack and mobile development, and has also been involved in machine learning and algorithms projects. He is also interested in math, being part of the Mathematics Department of Universidad de la Republica from 2015 to 2018.
Guzman Vigliecca
Senior Software Engineer
Chris received an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Boston University, with a specialization in Data Analytics. He is a full-stack developer with experience in machine learning, including a MS Project at the Galagan Lab on the use of ML for the prediction of TF binding affinities in E. coli and MTB. He has worked on software development for a variety of other synthetic biology projects, including Professor Densmore’s DAMP and CIDAR labs. Before transitioning to software development, he had a prior career in social science research at the University of Michigan.
Chris Krenz
Software Engineer
Contributors
Josh graduated with a degree in biology and has years of molecular biology and synthetic biology experience from time in Dr. Slava Epstein’s lab at Northeastern, Dr. Eric Wong’s lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, and the Northeastern iGEM teams he founded/captained. As a full-stack software engineer, he has led multiple engagements building large platforms with novel DNA assembly methods, algorithms, and visualizations. His industry experience covers web applications, command line applications, scientific libraries, servers, APIs, and databases. In his research with Dr. Densmore, Dr. Wong, and Dr. Epstein, he has published nine peer-review articles covering biodesign, molecular simulation, image processing, and medical research.
Joshua Timmons
Software Engineering
Advisors
Jenny Rooke is Managing Director at Genoa Ventures, where she invests in early stage life sciences companies, specializing in research tools, diagnostics, and synthetic biology. Jenny’s investing experience includes roles at F-Prime Capital, where she served her Kauffman Fellowship, Anterra Capital, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to investing, Jenny held multiple senior operating roles at U.S. Genomics, a venture-backed biotech start-up advancing single molecule detection technologies, and consulted to pharma and biotech companies with McKinsey & Co. Dr. Rooke holds a PhD in genetics from Yale University and a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech.
Jenny Rooke, Ph.D.
Business Advisor
Amoolya is Head of Computing at Calico Life Sciences. Prior to joining Calico, Amoolya was Vice President at Amyris where she led Amyris R&D’s Scientific Computing group, whose work includes innovations in genotype representation and data visualization; metabolic modeling and design-of-experiments to perturb microbial biochemical pathways; and statistical process control to accelerate Amyris’s design-build-test-learn cycle. Amoolya earned a Ph.D. in computational biology from UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Amyris, Amoolya completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the European Molecular Biology Lab in Heidelberg, Germany (with Peer Bork) and a Computational & Life Sciences fellowship at Emory University (with Bruce Levin) in the fields of comparative genomics and metagenomics, population genetics, and experimental evolution.
Amoolya Singh, Ph.D.
Scientific Advisor