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Julius, Dr. Jeremy Thompson and Professor Keith Perry of Cornell Plant Sciences were recently awarded a Gates Grand Challenge Exploration Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/GrantsAwarded.aspx?Round=9&Phase=1). These grants are an extension of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s commitment to the Grand Challenges in Global Health, which was launched in 2003 toContinue reading “Julius wins Gates Grand Challenge Exploration Grant with Jeremy Thompson and Keith Perry!”

The Lucks Lab descended from the Castle of Greyskull to claim this years CBE best halloween costume shield. It wasn’t that hard in the end as we simply unveiled our true nature as Masters of the Universe. Happy Halloween!

Yueting Zhang has officially started in the lab as our first post-doc ever! Welcome Yueting!

Julius was invited to present at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center’s 14th annual Fall symposium on “Explorations in Synthetic and Systems Biology”. The Danforth center in St. Louis was started in 2001 and is one of the country’s four largest non-profit plant research centers (along with Cornell’s own Boyce-Thompson Institute). The symposium was fantastic withContinue reading “Julius Presents at Danforth Center Symposium”

This was another great SynBERC retreat with a couple of milestones for the lab. Melissa gave a fantastic talk on her attenuator engineering work – the first talk to come out of the lab! David’s SHAPE-Seq poster had a line of visitors too! Here we are making an obligatory pilgrimage to the Broad Institute withContinue reading “Melissa and David Present at the SynBERC Fall Retreat”

Welcome to Tim Abbott, a sophomore ChemE who will work with Kyle on an interesting project about RNA-protein interactions. Welcome Tim!

Our collaborative paper with Rhiju Das’ lab at Stanford on the RNA mapping database (RMDB) is out in bioinformatics. Rhiju started the RMDB as a way to easily share RNA chemical and enzymatic probing data in a one-stop-shop resource with plenty of useful tools and such for getting access too and analyzing this data. With the addition ofContinue reading “The RNA Mapping Database Paper is out!”

Every week, The Cornell Daily Sun, features a different professor in their column ‘The Scientist’. This week, the Sun’s Sarah Cohen wrote about one of the Lucks Lab’s goals of creating biological components out of RNA to engineer cellular circuitry. They also had enough space to say a few words about heat and mass transfer.Continue reading “Julius featured in Cornell Daily Sun’s ‘The Scientist’”

Welcome to our newest undergraduate researcher, Sitara Sankar! Sitara is a sophmore BEE student who will work with Sarai on studying RNA-ligand interactions. Welcome Sitara!

Congratulations Kyle and Sarai on successfully passing the qualifying exam with stellar marks. The ‘Q exam’ consists of evaluation of class performance as well as a research proposal complete with a project description, preliminary data and future aims. Everyone was very impressed by the quality of the proposals. It was a great first year!