Eric Kelsic

Prior to founding Dyno, Eric led a team to develop the technology underlying Dyno's Al-powered protein engineering platform in George Church's lab at the Wyss Institute of Harvard Medical School. There he measured the first comprehensive fitness landscape of the adeno- associated virus (AAV) capsid protein and co-discovered the AAV MAAP gene. He holds a PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard University and a BS in Physics from Caltech. During his PhD he studied high-order interactions among soil microbes and developed MAGE-Seq, a method combining multiplexed genome-engineering with massively parallel phenotyping. As an undergrad he led one of the first studies of community structure on Facebook networks. He enjoys soccer, hiking, minimal techno and solving puzzles.