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!
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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”
Rebecca Chew Joins the Group
Rebecca is our newest undergraduate in the lab, working with Sarai on engineering RNA switches. She is also part of Cornell’s 2013 iGem team which is off to a great start. Welcome Rebecca!
Julius named James C. and Rebecca Q. Morgan Sesquicentennial Fellow
Julius has been named a James C. and Rebecca Q. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in honor of the generous gift of the Morgans for recruiting emerging “stars” to the Cornell Faculty as part of the Faculty Renewal Sesquicentennial Challenge (http://as.cornell.edu/alumni/sesqui-challenge.cfm). More information at http://www.cheme.cornell.edu/news/index.cfm?news_id=62848 .
Lucks Lab Attends First Gordon Conference on Synthetic Biology
The whole lab went up to be a part of the first Gordon Conference on Synthetic Biology: (Re-)constructing and Re-programming Life. Certain to be an historic event, it was a great opportunity to network with the leaders in the field and share some of what is going on in the lab. (Julius stayed behind to helpContinue reading “Lucks Lab Attends First Gordon Conference on Synthetic Biology”
Our First Paper is Published!
Melissa’s paper has been published in Nucleic Acids Research! A modular strategy for engineering orthogonal chimeric RNA transcription regulators outlines our new approach to creating basic RNA transcriptional regulators that can be used to build genetic networks. The background of the approach can be found here, where we showed how RNA-based transcription attenuators can be configured into basicContinue reading “Our First Paper is Published!”
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