Nathan Lanclos
Core Investigator · Board Member
JBEI · Researcher; Asperaight Consulting, LLC · President
California-based research nonprofit
SYNTHASE BIO
Building models and tools
to engineer biology.
Meet the Team
Kyrellos Ibrahim
Core Investigator · Board Member
JBEI · Researcher; UCSF · Researcher; Broad Institute · Researcher
Sehoon Byun
Director, Secretary & Chief Legal Officer · Board Member
EY-Parthenon · Accountant; Epo Management, LLC · President
Marco Huang
Head of Bioengineering · Board Member
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Affiliate Researcher
Vikram Gill
Head of Technology
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Affiliate Researcher
Our Purpose
“Building models and tools to engineer biology”
We develop ML models, conduct experiments, and build open tools. This combined approach will deepen biological understanding, accelerate design, and enable discovery.
Affiliations
Synthase Bio works closely with partners at University of California Berkeley, University of California San Francisco, and the Joint BioEnergy Institute.
PROJECTS
What we're building
RECENT MENTION
FoldLabs updates
Joint BioEnergy Institute
FoldLabs Academy featured in JBEI’s summer internship update
JBEI introduced FoldLabs Academy as a pilot program for high-school students learning AI-driven protein design.
ABOUT FOLDLABS
Protein design education for all
FoldLabs is a hands-on protein design learning platform covering sequence analysis, structure, bioinformatics, and AI-assisted design through guided lessons and computational notebooks.
Learn more ↗RESEARCH
What we're exploring
R / 01
Protein Interpretability
Understanding how learned representations encode protein structure, function, and biological behavior.
FOUNDATIONAL
R / 02
Biological Foundation Models
Building systems that connect sequence, structure, and experimental knowledge across biological scales.
MACHINE LEARNING
R / 03
Accessible Scientific Infrastructure
Developing open tools and educational resources that make protein research more usable and collaborative.
OPEN SCIENCE
Legal & Transparency
- Entity Name
- Synthase Bio
- Entity Type
- Nonprofit Corporation — CA — Public Benefit
- Entity No.
- B20260385949
- Filing Jurisdiction
- California
- Filing Authority
- California Secretary of State
- Document Type
- Articles of Incorporation — CA Nonprofit Corporation — Public Benefit
- Document No.
- —
PUBLIC RECORDS
Independent verification
Current filings and status can be checked directly with the relevant government agencies.