Rebecca 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, Rebecca will be working with Sarai on uncovering the design principles that underlie some of our new RNAContinue reading “Rebecca wins an ELI Scholarship!”
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Angela Yu Rotates in the Lab!
Angela Yu is rotating in the lab from the Tri-Institutional computational biology and medicine program. Angela got her undergraduate degree in computational biology at UPenn. She’ll be working on some new computational RNA folding projects in her rotation. Welcome Angela!
One Year Later – Chelsea, Alex, Paul and Cameron Pass the Q!
Congratulations Chelsea, Alex, Paul and Cameron for passing their qualifying exam with flying colors! Now let’s do some science!
Lucks Lab Featured in Engineering College Magazine
The Lucks Lab is featured in the recent Cornell Engineering Magazine. The article, entitled ‘Code Breaker’, delves into the lab’s quest to unlock the secrets of RNA molecules to both understand and engineer living systems. The article also dives into some of the twists and turns in Julius’ career trajectory, including how he has overcomeContinue reading “Lucks Lab Featured in Engineering College Magazine”
We are back at Cold Spring Harbor for the CSHL SynBio Summer Course
Melissa and Julius are back teaching the CSHL SynBio summer course. Following off of last year’s success, we brought a ton of TX-TL to the course (thanks to Richard Murray!), a bunch of research questions, and some Trello organizational skills to enable the 2014 students to push the boundaries of synthetic biology knowledge! So farContinue reading “We are back at Cold Spring Harbor for the CSHL SynBio Summer Course”
Julius, James, Melissa and Chelsea Present at the first SEED Conference
We traveled out to sunny LA to present some of the lab’s latest work at the inaugural Synthetic Biology, Engineering, Evolution and Design (SEED) meeting. Julius gave a talk on the latest results from the lab and James, Melissa and Chelsea presented posters on their work. We were pumped by how excited everyone was aboutContinue reading “Julius, James, Melissa and Chelsea Present at the first SEED Conference”
Kyle Passes his A Exam!
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!
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”
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