George Peter Magoola trains here to fight malaria in Uganda
Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology hosts inaugural fellow through a research collaboration with Synbio Africa
Category: Education
2024 CSB Annual Retreat ‘Fires Up’ Students
This year’s Center for Synthetic Biology’s Annual Retreat centered squarely on Northwestern students, trainees, and postdocs in CSB faculty labs. “CSB students and trainees are the foundation of our community,” … Continued
Undergraduate Researchers Shine at SynBio Symposium
Fourteen talented undergraduate students and their mentors convened at the Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB)’s annual undergraduate research symposium on August 19 to celebrate the conclusion of their summer research … Continued
2024 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Begins
Ten promising university students from across the US will call Northwestern their home this summer as the 2024 cohort of the Synthetic Biology Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (SynBREU). The … Continued
CSB Welcomes First DeFeo Family Undergraduate Research Fellows
Thanks to a generous grant from the DeFeo Family Foundation, five outstanding Northwestern undergraduate students were selected to be the first recipients of the DeFeo Family Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award. … Continued
CSB Trainee Spotlight: Growing as a Scientist and Giving Back
For Laura Hertz, a fifth-year graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, the opportunity to work in the lab of Julius Lucks, co-director of the Center for Synthetic Biology, … Continued
Northwestern University’s Center for Synthetic Biology and Synbio Africa Announce Inaugural Recipient of the Research Experience for Africans Fellowship
Northwestern University’s Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB) is pleased to announce George Peter Magoola as the inaugural recipient of the Center’s new Research Experience for Africans (SynBrREA) Fellowship. The pilot … Continued
CSB graduate students work toward a more sustainable and healthier world
Combatting drug resistance, making biomanufacturing more sustainable and developing more versatile drug delivery vehicles are just a few of the ambitious projects led by Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering graduate … Continued