Beyond grateful to the PhRMA Foundation for supporting our lab's work. 🙏 #NewPI.

2024, that's a wrap! 🎉 My first year as a PI flew by, and WOW. I couldn't have asked for a better team to share this journey. 🙏 Here's to more adventures and discoveries in 2025! BU Engineering Biological Design Center, Boston University Boston University Biomedical Engineering

🤩 Start the new year off right with this #synbio beauty from Bashor Lab! Filling a key void, the team develop a toolkit and framework for constructing synthetic PHOSPHORYLATION circuits with custom sense-and-response functions in human cells 👏 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

BRAINBOW BULLETIN: Spotlights how Siddharth Ramachandran’s tech using twisted beams of light may impact neuroimaging and how Rabia Tugce Yazicigil’s team develops health-monitoring, low-power bioelectronic sensors. READ>> mailchi.mp/bu/brainbow-2-… SUBSCRIBE!>>bu.edu/kilachandcente…

SCIENTIST PROFILE: Rabia Tugce Yazicigil discussed her lab's work developing health-monitoring, ultra-low-power bioelectronic sensors. She also shared her love for Motown music and reflected on where she would go if she could time-travel. READ>> bu.edu/kilachandcente…

BRAINBOW BULLETIN: Spotlights Zeba Wunderlich (@zebabw)'s U.S. Presidential award from the previous admin and profiles Mark Howe's work illuminating the deep neural circuits driving motivation and learning. READ>> mailchi.mp/bu/brainbow-3-… SUBSCRIBE!>>bu.edu/kilachandcente…

New Cell study from Brian Cleary's lab describes method for ID'ing genes associated with cellular functions (e.g. growth rate or cell activation) that's more cost-effective and less damaging to tissue than existing CRISPR screening methods. READ>>cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

In today's BDC seminar, Miho Kaneko, an Associate at Goodwin Law LLP, discussed, “Patent Law Basics for Scientists and Engineers & Career in Patent Law.”

#PhF25 awardee Samagya Banskota Boston University Biomedical Engineering Biological Design Center, Boston University is pioneering the first in vivo precision genome editing therapeutic strategy to rectify mutations in the Wfs1 gene associated with #WolframSyndrome, a rare genetic disorder. phrmafoundation.org/grants-fellows…

BRAINBOW BULLETIN: Spotlights Lynne Chantranupong (Lynne Chantranupong)'s 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship and profiles Samagya Banskota's work designing precise delivery systems for genetic treatments of disease. READ>> mailchi.mp/bu/brainbow-4-… SUBSCRIBE!>>bu.edu/kilachandcente…

With an award from the Hartwell Foundation, BU's Samagya Banskota and colleagues are working on a novel method of developing treatments for “rare” genetic diseases that, taken together, affect millions of people. spr.ly/60134PtAB

BRAINBOW BULLETIN: Profiles Prof. John Ngo, whose lab develops tools to study and reprogram cells at the molecular level; spotlights a new technique using generative AI to design RNA from Prof. Alex Green. READ>> mailchi.mp/bu/brainbow-6-… SUBSCRIBE!>>bu.edu/kilachandcente…

Another great turnout for the Kilachand Center, Boston University Community Barbecue! Fortunate that we always get such good weather for these!

SCIENTIST PROFILE: Prof. John Ngo, explains the tools his lab develops to study and reprogram cells at the molecular level, and shares how a childhood fascination with seashells helped put him on a path toward becoming a biologist and bioengineer. READ>> bu.edu/kilachandcente…

New pub from Rabia Tugce Yazicigil's lab!

We traveled to DC to talk to Congressional Staffers about the impact of NIH NIBIB funding. It enables us to develop synthetic biology tools to advance cell & genetic medicines for patients in need. REPOST to deliver the message that SCIENCE saves lives & makes America great!

So excited and proud of my friend Xin "Daniel" Gao start his lab. The Gao Lab is open and ready take off. ✈️✈️ It’s going to be a fantastic place to do amazing science with a brilliant scientist and a great mentor.

#LatticeAutomation partnered with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) to develop a new standard for sharing and tracking DNA and protein sequence designs – Biodesign Metadata Exchange (BMDE). More here: White Paper: lnkd.in/exa-TwgS Lattice Tools: lnkd.in/ePu7-TYK

Biophysical metabolic modeling of complex bacterial colony morphology: Cell Systems cell.com/cell-systems/f…