“Student organizations were super active here pre-COVID, but when COVID started, things began to fizzle,” says Dylan Brown, a fifth-year chemical engineering student in the Lucks Lab. Even after the … Continued
Center for Synthetic Biology faculty members Joshua Leonard and Jonathan Rivnay are part of AIMBE’s College of Fellows Class of 2025.
Professor Julius Lucks will be celebrated in June in Washington, D.C.
The Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Taylor Nichols, PhD, as the Director of Research (DOR). Taylor joined the Center in March 2025 and … Continued
Northwestern alumnus Adam Silverman, PhD, Staff Scientist at ADA Forsyth, will compete on Jeopardy! next week. A former Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB) graduate student in the labs of Julius … Continued
The Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB) recently welcomed five early researchers to the CSB Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The inaugural cohort will engage in cutting-edge synthetic biology at Northwestern for one … Continued
New study finds minerals drive phosphorus release at enzyme-like rates
There’s a new core in town, the Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB) BioFoundry, and it recently opened its doors to Northwestern investigators and affiliated startups interested in scaling up and … Continued
Collaborations spark a potential nexus of medicine and engineering neighborhoods
We recently sat down with Christine Akdeniz, the Center for Synthetic Biology’s (CSB) Senior Education and Outreach Coordinator, to learn more about her story and what brought her to Northwestern. … Continued
