Dr. Joshua Leonard presents a TEDx talk on Living Technologies
To view the full video visit Youtube. Dr. Leonard’s TEDx talk was also featured on Northwestern’s Engineering News Website.
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Dr. Joshua Leonard receives the 2018 Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence Award
New Biotech Technique Accelerates Protein Therapy Research
CSB Seminar Series – Dr. Ron Weiss
Dr. Ron Weiss presented on April 27, 2018 “Mammalian Synthetic Biology: Foundation and Therapeutic Applications” Recent advances in mammalian synthetic biology are revolutionizing how we approach long-standing problems in medicine … Continued
Fifth graders from the Western Springs School District visited the Center for Synthetic Biology
The Center for Synthetic Biology hosted fifth graders from the Western Springs School District. The fifth graders learned about current research efforts in the Center from faculty and students. They also had the opportunity for hands on experiments.
Dr. Neda Bagheri publishes article in PNAS
Discovery of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is crucial for gaining insights into biological processes involved in development or disease. Investigating the temporal dynamics of regulatory networks is particularly insightful. We introduce Sliding Window Inference for Network Generation (SWING), which uniquely accounts for temporal information underlying GRNs, such as protein synthesis and posttranslational modifications. We validate SWING in both in silico and in vitro experimental systems, highlighting improved performance in identifying time-delayed edges and illuminating network structure. SWING performance is robust to user-defined parameters, enabling identification of regulatory mechanisms from time-series gene expression data.
Dr. Michael Jewett awarded new grant with Hal Alper from UT Austin to work with the Joint Genomes Institute to accelerate biological design for sustainability and energy
New Undergraduate Research Experience
We are looking for eight highly motivated students with an interest in research at the interface of engineering, biology, mathematics, and chemistry to participate in the 2018 summer research program … Continued