Category: News
Northwestern to co-lead new Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago
Northwestern professor Shana Kelley named president of biomedical science hub.
Dr. Arthur Prindle Receives the NSF Career Award
Northwestern and MIT Receive Funding from Army’s Synthetic Biology Center
Two funded projects are part of the Army’s recently established basic research center that applies synthetic biology to design advanced materials and to engineer environmental microbial communities.
CSB News Feature: Synthetic biological materials enable new sensing functions
CSB faculty are collaborating to design new biological materials that can enable detection of environmental biological targets in real world samples as well as new ways to study electrochemical signals. … Continued
CSB Hosts Research Day Event
On Friday Dec. 9th, CSB hosted their first Synthetic Biology Research Day at the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center on the Chicago Campus. Nearly 50 students, postdocs, staff, and faculty … Continued
Northwestern Part of New Center for Multi-Scale Synthetic Biology
Supported by the US Department of Energy, the new center will develop a multi-scale synthetic biology resource to accelerate biosystems design for carbon‐negative biomanufacturing.
CSB Seminar on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 11:00am in Tech M345, Dr. Eduardo Agosin Trumper, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Closing Gaps to Find New Energy Sources
A multi-institutional research team including Professor Michael Jewett implemented a new process to produce butanol, butanoic acid, hexanol, and hexanoic acid, which could make green energy easier to generate.
CSB Welcomes Ashty Karim, Director of Research
  As CSB’s first Director of Research, Ashty will lead the Center’s research operation. He will help build the capacity of the Center, capitalizing on its current strengths and providing … Continued