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    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”

  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 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!”

Who is the new super postdoc on the right? And what is she got up her sleeve?

This just speaks for itself …  

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”

Julius recently attended the NIH High-Risk High-Reward symposium in Bethesda, MD as part of our NIH New Innovator Award. It was truly an amazing group of people with talks from some of the most innovative researchers supported by the NIH!

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 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”