His research focuses on developing genetic tools to understand how the human gut microbiota contributes to human health and how to engineer bacterial members as the next generation of probiotics. Chase completed his PhD with Dr. Christina Smolke then at the California Institute of Technology, where he received graduate fellowships through the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. He then was a Life Sciences Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Gisela Storz at the National Institutes of Health. As a faculty member, he was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. CSHL topic: Prof. Beisel will be teaching the use of CRISPR technologies in bacteria, with a focus on applying these tools for programmable gene repression and phenotypic screening.