Two CSB Faculty Inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows
Center for Synthetic Biology faculty members Joshua Leonard and Jonathan Rivnay are part of AIMBE’s College of Fellows Class of 2025.
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Lucks Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Professor Julius Lucks will be celebrated in June in Washington, D.C.
Center for Synthetic Biology Announces Taylor Nichols, PhD, as Director of Research
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 CSB Alum to Compete on Jeopardy!
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
CSB launches inaugural Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
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
Iron Oxides Act as Natural Catalysts to Unlock Phosphorus to Fuel Plant Growth
New study finds minerals drive phosphorus release at enzyme-like rates
New Northwestern Synthetic Biology Core Opens for Business
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
Uniting Biomedical Research Across Northwestern
Collaborations spark a potential nexus of medicine and engineering neighborhoods
CSB Staff Profile: Christine Akdeniz – From Teacher to Multi-Tasker
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
An ‘amplifier’ for missed signals produced by our bodies
New discovery makes system monitoring contaminants in drinking water 10 times more sensitive