SynBioBeta Speaker
Jacob Beal
Engineering Fellow
RTX BBN Technologies
May 2026, SynBioBeta
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Dr. Jacob Beal, an Engineering Fellow at RTX BBN Technologies, is the lead developer of FAST-NA Scanner, an adaptation of signature-based malware scanning to DNA synthesis biosecurity screening, now being used as commercial software in the DNA synthesis industry. Dr. Beal also co-leads the Sequence Biosecurity Risk Consortium (SBRC), an effort to establish international standards for testing biosecurity sequence screening systems, as well as organizing efforts to respond to emergent AI-driven biosecurity threats, representing BBN to the International Gene Synthesis Consortium (IGSC), and leading maintenance of the IGSC’s Regulated Pathogen Database.Dr. Beal is also known for his work in other areas of synthetic biology, including development of standards for representation and communication of biological designs and experiments, methods for calibrated flow cytometry, precision analysis and design of genetic regulatory networks, and engineering of biological information processing devices.
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