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Ray Wins Genentech Scheele Outstanding Junior Award

Ray Zhuang, a junior CBE major in the Lucks Lab has been chosen by Genentech to win the Scheele Outstanding Junior Award. The award “recognizes a student who excels in scholarship, leadership, and campus activities, and is given to a student who “upon graduation will be a positive reflection of Cornell in the industrial ChemicalContinue reading “Ray Wins Genentech Scheele Outstanding Junior Award”

Julius Quoted in Popular Science

Julius was recently quoted in “What Are Genetically Recoded Organisms?” in Popular Science by Francie Diep. The article is a nice read about the Isaacs’ lab recent Science paper “Genomically Recoded Organisms Expand Biological Functions”. The paper describes the first complete milestone of the rEcoli project (see here for an article about a previous ScienceContinue reading “Julius Quoted in Popular Science”

Sarai Wins Best Poster Award

Sarai won the Best Poster Award at the 4th annual CBE Graduate Research Symposium for her poster “Engineering Light Activated RNA Transcriptional Switches”. Students and faculty from all of the broad research areas covered by CBE vote on the best poster awards, reflecting Sarai’s great job in communicating her research – way to go Sarai!

The Centrality of RNA for Engineering Gene Expression

Our review paper “The Centrality of RNA for Engineering Gene Expression” is out! The review covers the ethos of the lab, and has three main sections: an update of all the known natural and synthetic RNA-based regulatory mechanisms out there, an outline of computational RNA structure prediction tools and how they have facilitated RNA engineering, and aContinue reading “The Centrality of RNA for Engineering Gene Expression”

Julius Quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Julius was quoted in the recent article “DARPA Courts Biotech Researchers” on the benefits of the DARPA YFA program getting junior faculty into the DARPA system. It is an interesting read about the role DARPA can play alongside more traditional funders like the NIH to continue to propel biotech research. See the article at – http://chronicle.com/article/Darpa-Courts-Biotech/142151/

Julius Named NIH Director’s New Innovator

Julius has been named a New Innovator by the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins. The goal of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program is to support exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact. The New Innovator Awards are supportedContinue reading “Julius Named NIH Director’s New Innovator”

Lucks Lab helps create first CSHL Synthetic Biology Course

Julius and Melissa have helped create the first Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) summer course on synthetic biology. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has hosted summer courses and conferences on important topics of biology for over 65 years. Notable past courses include Max Delbruck’s original phage course, which helped crystallize the field of molecular biology, andContinue reading “Lucks Lab helps create first CSHL Synthetic Biology Course”

Julius becomes field member of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology

  Julius recently became a field member of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology (BMCB) at Cornell. Cornell’s unique field faculty system is an embodiment of the interdisciplinary spirit throughout the university, and is one of the things that make it truly stand out as a fantastic place to do science. Field faculty are similar to joint appointsContinue reading “Julius becomes field member of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology”