Dr. Jacob Beal is a Senior Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, where he leads research on synthetic biology and distributed systems engineering. His work in synthetic biology includes development of standards for representation and communication of biological designs and experiments, signature-based detection of controlled pathogens, methods for calibrated flow cytometry, precision analysis and design of genetic regulatory networks, and engineering of biological information processing devices. Dr. Beal is also the Community Liaison for the SBOL Industrial Consortium and a member of the SBOL Steering Committee.