Melissa is the recipient of an Austin Hooey Graduate Award. The Hooey award is the highest honor that CBE bestows on graduate students, and recognizes those students who have demonstrated the highest research quality and productivity, and who have demonstrated a track record of service to their research group, department, and community. The Hooey award isContinue reading “Melissa wins Austin Hooey Graduate Award”
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Lucks Lab Featured on NSF MCB Blog!
The Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently launched a blog to keep people up to date on the exciting science that they are funding. Today’s post actually featured the Lucks Lab, and talked about some of our exciting breakthroughs and outreach activities we are involved in. It alsoContinue reading “Lucks Lab Featured on NSF MCB Blog!”
STARs Featured in Nature Methods
STARs are featured in the April issue of Nature Methods! In her Research Highlights article “RNA that activates transcription”, Nicole Rusk describes some of the behind the scenes of how we created STARs. She also does a great job of capturing the spirit and the mission of the Lucks Lab!
Cameron and Tim Win NSF Graduate Fellowships!
Cameron and Tim have been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship. The NSF graduate fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in science and engineering, and is one of the most highly sought after awards at this stage of their careers. NSF fellows have gone on to become recognized leaders in their field, with past winners including Nobel-PrizeContinue reading “Cameron and Tim Win NSF Graduate Fellowships!”
Eric Strobel joins the group!
Eric Strobel is the newest addition to the group! Eric comes to us from Jeff Robert’s lab at Cornell and is an expert on transcriptional pausing. For a bit of history, the Robert’s lab did pioneering work on deciphering the mechanism of intrinsic termination, making Eric’s addition to the group particularly exciting for us! WelcomeContinue reading “Eric Strobel joins the group!”
Cold Spring Harbor Synthetic Biology Summer Course Now Accepting Applications!
We are doing the CSHL Summer Course again this year. Please apply!
STARs Paper Among Most Read on Nature Chemical Biology Site!
STARs are on the front page of the Nature Chemical Biology Website!
And Trending #1!
STARs are born in Nature Chemical Biology!
James and Melissa’s Nature Chemical Biology paper on “Creating Small Transcription Activating RNAs” (STARs) is out! As we all know, RNA is an awesome molecule that does many things across the cell. It is particularly good at regulating gene expression. However, we noticed recently that of all the things RNA does in nature, one of theContinue reading “STARs are born in Nature Chemical Biology!”
Julius wins NSF CAREER award
Julius is the recipient of a 2015 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. According to the NSF, “the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education andContinue reading “Julius wins NSF CAREER award”
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