Congratulations to Kyle for passing his A exam and ascending to PhD candidacy! Kyle did a fantastic job telling us all about his SHAPE-Seq innovations. Congratulations Kyle!
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Helen and Matt Graduate!
Congratulations to Helen and Matt for graduating in the Cornell Class of 2014! Helen is off to apply her Chemical Engineering skills to the problems faced by wine production at the E. & J. Gallo Winery in Livingston, CA. In fact, her first job will be as a project engineer for a biotreatment productContinue reading “Helen and Matt Graduate!”
Julius gives talk at Harvard WAM Seminar
Julius gave a talk recently to the Harvard Widely Applied Math (WAM) seminar series on ‘Controlling Cells through RNA Folding’. It was great to be back for an official visit!
Sitara wins Best Poster in Applied Research at CURB Spring Forum
Sitara was recently honored with Best Poster in the Applied Research category at the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board’s Spring Forum. Her poster, entitled “Engineering Light-Activated RNA Gene Regulators,” covered her work over the past year. Together with Sarai and Rebecca, Sitara has characterized interactions between RNA aptamers and their target chromophore ligands via SHAPE.Continue reading “Sitara wins Best Poster in Applied Research at CURB Spring Forum”
Tim Wins Cornell Engineering Undergraduate Research Award
Tim is the recipient of the 2014 Cornell Engineering Alumni Association Undergraduate Research Award! Given to the most outstanding undergraduate researcher in the whole Engineering College, this award is one of the highest honors bestowed on undergraduate researchers. Tim received the award because of his extreme enthusiasm, hard work, and dedication to pursuingContinue reading “Tim Wins Cornell Engineering Undergraduate Research Award”
Our ACS SynBio Paper on Fast RNA Circuitry is Out!
Melissa and James’ paper on characterizing the fast dynamics of RNA genetic circuitry is out! We have been hypothesizing for a while that RNA-only circuits would be fast compared to protein circuits because RNAs degrade faster than proteins. (To understand why the speed of genetic circuits is determined by the degradation rates of theContinue reading “Our ACS SynBio Paper on Fast RNA Circuitry is Out!”
Tim wins an ELI scholarship!
Tim was awarded research funding as part of Cornell’s engineering learning initiatives (ELI) program. The ELI program enhances undergraduate learning by providing opportunities for students to engage in cooperative learning and undergraduate research. As part of this program, Tim will be working with Kyle on continuing to use SHAPE experiments to understand how to engineer RNAContinue reading “Tim wins an ELI scholarship!”
Lucks Lab Bowling – A New Holiday Tradition?
Who is the new super postdoc on the right? And what is she got up her sleeve?
Julius Featured in YouTube Post – “The Most Engineerable Molecule on the Planet”
This just speaks for itself …
“Centrality of RNA for Engineering Gene Expression” featured in Biotechnology Journal Editorial
Our review was recently featured in a Biotechnology Journal Editorial by Kristala Prather and Ali Khademhosseini – “Biomolecular Engineering – latest advances and applications.” In the editorial, Julius’s talk from the 2013 ICBE meeting – “A Family of Orthogonal Chimeric Antisense RNA Transcription Regulators” (based on Melissa’s NAR Paper) was highlighted along with a description of ourContinue reading ““Centrality of RNA for Engineering Gene Expression” featured in Biotechnology Journal Editorial”
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