CSO
Cultivarium
Dr. Nili Ostrov is the Chief Scientific Officer of Cultivarium, a nonprofit creating tools for life scientists to expand access to novel microorganisms. She is a Microbial Geneticist who has led several technology development projects in synthetic biology, including construction of synthetic microbial genomes, engineering large metabolic pathways and developing scalable methods for genetics in non-model microbes. Previously, she was the Director of Molecular Diagnostics at Pandemic Response Lab, a high-throughput diagnostic and genome biosurveillance COVID-19 facility established for New York City.