The Lucks Lab recently hired our first lab manager, Andrea Thompson! Andrea officially joins our lab as a research technologist, where she’ll be responsible for management and oversight of several of our critical lab processes. Andrea joins us after stints at one of Chicago’s landmark institutions, The Field Museum of Natural History. At The FieldContinue reading “Our first lab manager, Andrea Thompson, joins the lab!”
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Angela Yu wins best talk award at the Rustbelt RNA Meeting!
Several members of the Lucks Lab RNA structure team recently travelled to Indianapolis, Indiana for the 2017 Rustbelt RNA Meeting (RRM). RRM is described as a “regional scientific meeting that gathers scientists from throughout the Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic United States to discuss RNA-related biomedical research.” RRM places a large focus on sharing ideas, fostering collaborations,Continue reading “Angela Yu wins best talk award at the Rustbelt RNA Meeting!”
Lucks Lab members win prestigious fellowships!
Congratulations to one of our postdocs, Dr. Eric Strobel, and two of our newest graduate students, Luyi Cheng and Adam Silverman, on securing fellowships! Eric is one of 20 recipients of the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2017 through the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. These fellowships are awarded to postdocs “with the highest potential for successContinue reading “Lucks Lab members win prestigious fellowships!”
Julius is interviewed on the GeneMods podcast!
GeneMods, Northwestern University’s Synthetic Biology club, have been producing an informative and entertaining podcast that covers the latest in synthetic biology news. For their most recent episode, “Hello, RNA World!,” they interviewed Julius Lucks to discuss the features of RNA that make it such a fascinating and engineerable molecule. Listen to the podcast on Soundcloud or on iTunes.
Julius is quoted in IEEE Spectrum on “ribocomputing”
A new paper in Nature by Alexander Green et al. on “Cellular logic computation using ribocomputing devices” describes a 12-input logic gate that operates at the post-transcriptional level (i.e. as switchable RNA toeholds). IEEE Spectrum, the flagship magazine of the world’s largest professional engineering organization, reached out to Julius for his take on the work. ClickContinue reading “Julius is quoted in IEEE Spectrum on “ribocomputing””
The Lucks Lab is hiring!
The Lucks Lab is hiring a research technologist. If you, or someone you know, is interested in working with a great team of scientists unraveling the RNA sequence:structure:function relationship, this job may be for you! See the job listing here. Job Summary: The Research Technologist will perform duties in the Lucks Laboratory for RNAContinue reading “The Lucks Lab is hiring!”
Congratulations to James Chappell! Now a Professor at Rice University!
Congratulations to one of the first postdocs of the Lucks Lab, Dr. James Chappell, on starting his lab at Rice University! James joins the BioSciences department at Rice as an assistant professor, where he’ll be focused on creating RNA regulators of gene expression, exploring the portability of these regulators in bacteria domain, performing signal processing withContinue reading “Congratulations to James Chappell! Now a Professor at Rice University!”
Our Cotranscriptional SHAPE-Seq paper is recommended by F1000Prime
The group’s paper on Cotranscriptional folding of a riboswitch at nucleotide resolution has been recommended by F1000Prime! F1000, or Faculty of 1000, is a post-publication peer review service which utilizes recommendations from thousands of experts to recommend the most important papers in the field. Our work on Cotrans SHAPE-Seq was recommended by F1000 Faculty Member and structural biologistContinue reading “Our Cotranscriptional SHAPE-Seq paper is recommended by F1000Prime”
Luyi Cheng joins the Lucks Lab!
Luyi Cheng, a PhD student in the IBIS graduate program at Northwestern, has joined the Lucks Lab for her PhD research! Luyi completed her B.S. in Biochemistry at the University of Washington and did undergraduate research in structural biology. She brings her expertise and passion for structural biology to the “RNA world” and will help advanceContinue reading “Luyi Cheng joins the Lucks Lab!”
Phillip Clauer joins the lab for summer research.
Phillip Clauer, who just wrapped up his sophomore year in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program at Penn State, has joined our lab for summer research! For the past 2 years Phillip has been working on genetic circuits in the Salis Lab at Penn State, and he’s hoping to expand his syn bio skillset working inContinue reading “Phillip Clauer joins the lab for summer research.”
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