Gina Partipilo, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Hooper Foundation
School of Medicine

Awards

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• UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPFP), University of California San Francisco, 2025
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowhsip, University of Texas at Austin, 2021-2024

Education & Training

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• PhD Chemical Engineering University of Texas 08/2024
• BS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois 12/2018

Publications (18)

Top publication keywords:
ShewanellaGene Regulatory NetworksSingle-Cell AnalysisGenes, SyntheticPhotoacoustic TechniquesTransistors, ElectronicModels, GeneticElectron TransportLakesNitric Oxide DonorsEducation, GraduateCell RespirationSynthetic BiologyElectrochemical TechniquesEmulsions

• Single-cell phenotyping of extracellular electron transfer via microdroplet encapsulation.
  Applied and environmental microbiology 2025 Partipilo G, Bowman EK, Palmer EJ, Gao Y, Ridley RS, Alper HS, Keitz BK
• A Linear Mixed Effects Model for Evaluating Synthetic Gene Circuits.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Partipilo G, Coleman SM, Gao Y, Miniel Mahfoud IE, Wilke CO, Alper HS, Keitz BK
• Teaching troubleshooting skills to graduate students.
  eLife 2024 Partipilo G, Gao Y, Holwerda AJ, Lekbach Y, Miniel Mahfoud IE, Simmons TR, Tibbett BM, Wilen RE, Benyamin MS, Keitz BK
• Transcriptional regulation of living materials via extracellular electron transfer.
  Nature chemical biology 2024 Graham AJ, Partipilo G, Dundas CM, Miniel Mahfoud IE, Halwachs KN, Holwerda AJ, Simmons TR, FitzSimons TM, Coleman SM, Rinehart R, Chiu D, Tyndall AE, Sajbel KC, Rosales AM, Keitz BK
• Extracellular Electron Transfer Enables Cellular Control of Cu(I)-Catalyzed Alkyne-Azide Cycloaddition.
  ACS central science 2022 Partipilo G, Graham AJ, Belardi B, Keitz BK

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• A Linear Mixed Effects Model for Evaluating Synthetic Gene Circuits.
  ACS synthetic biology 2026 Partipilo G, Coleman SM, Holwerda AJ, Gao Y, Mahfoud IEM, Wilke CO, Alper HS, Keitz BK
• Eggerthella lenta evades bacteriophage through reversible megabase-scale inversions of capsular polysaccharide gene clusters.
  Research square 2026 Zhang S, Buttimer C, Trepka KR, Lam KN, Ramirez Hernandez LA, Soto-Perez P, Noecker C, Canigiula P, Ortega EF, Lee J, Ramirez L, Partipilo G, Lawrence HB, Bottacini F, Draper LA, Paul Ross R, Coffey A…
• Eggerthella lenta evades bacteriophage through reversible megabase-scale inversions of capsular polysaccharide gene clusters.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026 Zhang S, Buttimer C, Trepka KR, Lam KN, Hernandez LAR, Soto-Perez P, Noecker C, Canigiula P, Ortega EF, Lee J, Ramirez L, Partipilo G, Lawrence HB, Bottacini F, Draper LA, Ross RP, Coffey A, Shkoporov…
• Shifts in the human gut microbiome during cancer chemotherapy are diet-dependent.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Trepka KR, Van Blarigan EL, Kyaw TS, Olson CA, Partipilo G, Ortega EF, Noecker C, Upadhyay V, Zhang C, Gempis D, Steiding P, Stanfield D, Venook AP, Atreya CE, Kidder WA, Turnbaugh PJ
• Translating Extracellular Electron Transfer Activities with Organic Electrochemical Transistors.
  Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2025 Gao Y, Zhou Y, Ji X, Graham AJ, Dundas CM, Miniel Mahfoud IE, Tibbett BM, Tan B, Partipilo G, Dodabalapur A, Rivnay J, Keitz BK
• Rewiring native post-transcriptional global regulators to achieve designer, multi-layered genetic circuits.
  Nature communications 2024 Simmons TR, Partipilo G, Buchser R, Stankes AC, Srivastava R, Chiu D, Keitz BK, Contreras LM
• Single-Cell Phenotyping of Extracellular Electron Transfer via Microdroplet Encapsulation.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Partipilo G, Bowman EK, Palmer EJ, Gao Y, Ridley RS, Alper HS, Keitz BK
• A hybrid transistor with transcriptionally controlled computation and plasticity.
  Nature communications 2024 Gao Y, Zhou Y, Ji X, Graham AJ, Dundas CM, Miniel Mahfoud IE, Tibbett BM, Tan B, Partipilo G, Dodabalapur A, Rivnay J, Keitz BK
• A Hybrid Transistor with Transcriptionally Controlled Computation and Plasticity.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Gao Y, Zhou Y, Ji X, Graham AJ, Dundas CM, Mahfoud IEM, Tibbett BM, Tan B, Partipilo G, Dodabalapur A, Rivnay J, Keitz BK
• Cross-Seeding Controls Aβ Fibril Populations and Resulting Functions.
  The journal of physical chemistry. B 2022 Lucas MJ, Pan HS, Verbeke EJ, Partipilo G, Helfman EC, Kann L, Keitz BK, Taylor DW, Webb LJ
• Near-infrared photoactivatable nitric oxide donors with photoacoustic readout.
  Methods in enzymology 2020 Zhou EY, Knox HJ, Reinhardt CJ, Partipilo G, Chan J
• Near-Infrared Photoactivatable Nitric Oxide Donors with Integrated Photoacoustic Monitoring.
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018 Zhou EY, Knox HJ, Reinhardt CJ, Partipilo G, Nilges MJ, Chan J
• A Ratiometric Acoustogenic Probe for in Vivo Imaging of Endogenous Nitric Oxide.
  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018 Reinhardt CJ, Zhou EY, Jorgensen MD, Partipilo G, Chan J