Taylor is awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship!
Taylor was awarded the NSF Graduate Fellowship. The NSF graduate fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in science and engineering. It is one of the most prestigious awards at this stage of their career. Congratulations, Taylor!
Congratulations to Justin, who won 1st place in the AIChE Area 8B Graduate Student Award Session!
Justin submitted a talk entitled, “Driving Encapsulated Biological Reactions with DNA-Functionalized Vesicles” to win this award. Congratulations, Justin!! See the announcement here
Our PhD candidate Justin was awarded the Ryan Graduate Fellowship!
Justin Peruzzi, a 4th year Chemical and Biological Engineering student in the Kamat Lab was named as a 2020 Ryan Fellow. The fellowships support graduate students who explore fundamental nanoscale science and advance this knowledge into practical applications of benefit to society. Congratulations, Justin!! Check out the press release here More information about the […]
Our new NSF-funded graduate training program focused on synthetic biology will launch at Northwestern!
Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB) is one of the global hubs for innovation in its field. A prestigious grant promises to push the program even further. The National Science Foundation awarded $3 million to support a new graduate-level training program that focuses on PhD students. Northwestern Engineering’s Julius Lucks, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, is […]
The Center for Synthetic Biology was featured in Northwestern’s McCormick Engineering Magazine!
This article features some of the innovative research that the center is doing. It also features the many different faculty members throughout Northwestern which include Neha! Please check out the article here.
Claire was awarded a fellowship through the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
Congratulations to Claire for being awarded a fellowship through the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
Neha, Gabe, and Arthur appear on the Northwestern Research Snapshot
Neha, Gabe, and Arthur appeared on the cover of the latest Northwestern Research Snapshot from the Northwestern Office for Research, representing new faculty in the Center for Synthetic Biology.
Miranda is awarded an AHA Predoctoral Fellowship!
Congratulations to Miranda, who was awarded a prestigious Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association this month! Miranda will be studying how fatty acids affect the activity of a mechanosensitive channel in red blood cells.
Our paper is out in Angewandte Chemie!
Our paper investigating how DNA tethers enable fusion between specific populations of lipid vesicles and can be used to initiate cell-free reactions is out in Angewandte Chemie. The work was led by Justin Peruzzi and explores how membrane domains can enhance membrane fusion and thereby increase the yield of encapsulated cell-free expression reactions. Great job […]
Claire Receives Research Awards!
Congratulations to Kamat Lab undergrad, Claire Hilburger, who was awarded Northwestern’s BME Award for Research and the 2019 BMES Student Design and Research Award! She’ll be presenting her research at the BMES Annual Meeting on October 18th. She’s headed to grad school next year- keep an eye out for her!
