Prof. Frances H. Arnold — Research Profile
California Institute of Technology · Bioengineering
Graduate application deadlines
Bioengineering
PhD in Bioengineering (BE)
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 1, 2026
Source: bbe.caltech.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026
Considering this lab for grad school?
Save it to compare side by side with other labs. Jot a one-line note under each paper below — Application prep gathers your notes into an outline for your email to the PI and your statement of purpose. You do the writing; no AI.
What to prepare before emailing a PIAbout
Prof. Frances H. Arnold at California Institute of Technology Bioengineering lists Directed evolution, synthetic biology, protein engineering, biocatalysis, biofuels as their registered research area.
Research keywords
Recent papers
- Transformation of Aromatic Feedstocks into Value-Added Products via Biocatalytic Primary AminationACS Central Science · Oct 13
- Designing enzymes for new-to-nature chemistry and non-natural substrates with AlphaProtein NovoPreprintbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · Oct 5
- Design-Evolution Synergy Enables New-to-Nature Enzyme ChemistryPreprintbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · Oct 2
From OpenAlex · papers whose author affiliation matches this university
Labs doing related research
Labs that recently published on topics this lab's recent papers share
Pranam Chatterjee Lab
University of Pennsylvania · Computer and Information Science
Adaptive model-guided protein evolution with sparse data optimizes compact eukaryotic genome editorsNature Biotechnology · Aug 24Shared topic: Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
Mohammad R. K. Mofrad Lab
University of California, Berkeley · Mechanical Engineering
Identifiability of metabolic resilience from sparse longitudinal metabolomicsPreprintbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · Aug 2Shared topic: Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Domitilla Del Vecchio Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Department of Mechanical Engineering
Model-guided design of single-cargo, dual-attractor gene circuitsPreprintbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · Oct 20Shared topic: Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Other labs in this department
- Alexander J. Varshavsky Lab
ubiquitin-proteasome system, N-degron pathways of protein degradation
- André Hoelz Lab
nuclear pore complex, histone-modifying machinery, X-ray crystallography
- Bruce A. Hay Lab
Genetic engineering mosquito populations
- David C. Chan Lab
Mitochondrial dynamics
- David Prober Lab
Genetic and neural circuits that regulate sleep
- David Van Valen Lab
Study of living systems