Professors Julius Lucks (The Lucks Lab) and Danielle Tullman-Ercek (Tullman-Ercek Lab), founding members of Northwestern's Center for Synthetic Biology, will lead the center as co-directors. Congratulations! bit.ly/3DLWJxU

We happy to share our recent work by Timothy Vu and Lucas Sant'Anna demonstrating the power of lipid phase segregation to change the spatial presentation of targeting ligands and modulate nanoparticle binding to target cells. Great job Tim and Lucas!

We are so proud of Cat Majors, PhD and Kavi Chintam! The McBride awards recognize outstanding TGS students and postdoctoral trainees who go above and beyond in any or all of the areas of diversity, service, and engagement.

Congratulations to Tyo Lab postdoc Cat Majors, PhD for this award! She has worked diligently during her time in the lab to not only build up a strong research program but also to support Northwestern #postdocs through her service with Northwestern University Postdoctoral Association! Bravo!!

Happy Grad Student Appreciation Week! Feeling thankful for our dedicated, warm, and brilliant grad students who put in hard work every day as TAs and researchers. We're sharing the love w/ a department-sponsored coffee break tomorrow @ 1pm!

Very, very happy to have this out there! Ton of combined work from Namita Bhan Plattner, Alexandra de Paz, and me. Hopefully folks will see what we are trying to accomplish and build on this! Huge challenge. We need more working on! tyolabnu biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Tyo lab #postdoc Cat Majors, PhD on receiving a K99/R00 fellowship for her work engineering protein signaling networks in vitro!! We are excited to have her in the lab for another year!

We had a (future) subject matter expert visit group meeting today, and he found Tracey’s research update absolutely riveting! #LabDog #beagle #WinstonTheBeagle Cat Majors, PhD

Lots of friendly faces to warm us up on this chilly June morning! Thanks to all who attended our Commencement reception. We can't wait to see what our wonderful grads do next!

Just some future (and current!) dog-tors at the Tyo lab hangout tonight! #GradSchool #postdoc #LabCommunity #WinstonTheBeagle #WhatsTheBestBerry

Aromatic natural products synthesis from aromatic lignin monomers using Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Very glad to get this one out there! Genuinely think it can make an impact on how we think about lignin upgrading. tyolabnu

Check out our latest opinion article by Yash Chainani and Geoffrey Bonnanzio on how chemistry and biology can be hybridized for expanded synthesis options! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

CSB makes #research collaborations across campus easy by creating shared lab spaces where new ideas can flourish. Two great examples are the 11th-floor Simpson Querrey Institute & new space in Mudd Library. bit.ly/3IDgI3R The Mrksich Research Group Tullman-Ercek Lab NorthwesternResearch

. Cat Majors, PhD is an incoming assistant professor Clemson ChBE. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow Northwestern and has research interests in the development and characterization of protein signaling networks in vitro. #WICisYOU

We may have been just outside of the path of totality, but it was awesome watching the eclipse on the Northwestern lakefill with these awesome lab mates and moon-themed snacks! (And also getting absolutely destroyed by Keith at croquet!) #Eclipse2024 #AcademicTwitter

Excited to announce that I will be joining Northwestern Engineering and Northwestern Chemical & Biological Engineering as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2025! We work at the intersection of synthetic biology and process engineering toward a bio-enabled, sustainable future. Let's discover together! #synbio #newPI Northwestern CSB

Big news from Northwestern CSB - today we launch our new approach to teach #syntheticbiology Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… Framing #synbio across scales allows anyone to learn this exciting field Integrating the societal scale promotes responsible innovation To the future!