Category: News
Reshaping the Virus. Dr. Dannielle Tullman-Ercek Develops a Smaller Virus for Drug Delivery
The Center for Synthetic Biology to Host the First ERBC Retreat, March 24-25, 2017
CSB is to host The First Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) Retreat on March 24-25, 2017. The EBRC retreat will feature all the great talks and networking opportunities that members grown to love. By moving this event to Northwestern, EBRC hopes to attract a broader range of academic and industrial participants into the Consortium.
Professor Michael Jewett – the Inaugural Suzanne C. and Duncan A. Mellichamp Distinguished Lecturer
Professor Michael Jewett  was the inaugural Suzanne C. and Duncan A. Mellichamp Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Jewett’s lecture titled” Repuposing ribosomes … Continued
Center’s Director Milan Mrksich & Co-Director Michael C. Jewett Discuss the Emerging Field of Synthetic Biology and Its Rapidly Developing Impact on Cancer Research.
As part of President Obama and Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative, Dr. Leonard has been invited to a conferee at a meeting focused on “Systems and Synthetic Biology for Designing Rational Cancer Immunotherapies” (October 2016)
Center Co-Director Michael Jewett Receives MURI Grant
Center’s Faculty & Students Shine at International Synthetic Biology Conference
Dr. Julius Lucks Receives ACS Young Investigator Award
Two Biologysts Join The Center for Synthetic Biology
Center for Synthetic Biology is expanding to include two new faculty.  This fall Julius Lucks from Cornell University and Danielle Tullman Ercek from the University of California at Berkeley will … Continued