JOURNAL CLUB
The journal club’s objective is to assess recent journal articles and to discuss how the findings apply to current research.
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2019
- Intracellular delivery of mRNA to human primary T cells with microfuidic vortex shedding
Presented by Alaa Selim from the Shih Lab on September 25th, 2019 - Industrial brewing yeast engineered for the production of primary flavor determinants in hopped beer
Presented by Michael Pyne from the Martin Lab on September 11th, 2019 - Total synthesis of Escherichia coli with a recoded genome
Presented by Saima Rashid from the Whiteway Lab on August 28th, 2019 - Modular and tunable biological feedback control using a de novo protein switch
Presented by Mohamed Nasr from the Kwan and Martin Labs on July 31st, 2019 - RNA-guided DNA insertion with CRISPR-associated transposases
Presented by Mathieu Husser from the Piekny and Martin Labs on July 3rd, 2019 - Central dogma rates and the trade-off between precision and economy in gene expression
Presented by Giselle McCallum from the Potvin-Trottier Lab on June 19th, 2019 - Reprogramming the antigen specificity of B cells using genome-editing technologies
Presented by Courtney Gamache from the Kachroo Lab on June 5th, 2019 - Yeast-based synthetic biology platform for antimicrobial peptide production Presented by Jama Hagi-Yusuf from the Kwan Lab on May 22th, 2019
- Refactoring and Optimization of Light-Switchable Escherichia coli Two-Component Systems
Presented by Guy Soffer from the Shih Lab on May 8th, 2019 - Designer membraneless organelles enable codon reassignment of selected mRNAs in eukaryotes
Presented by Daniel Tsyplenkov from the Martin Lab on April 24th, 2019
- A Synthetic System That Senses Candida albicans and Inhibits Virulence Factors
Presented by Raha Omran from the Whiteway Lab on April 10th, 2019 - Complete biosynthesis of cannabinoids and their unnatural analogies in yeast Presented by Britanny Greco from the Kachroo Lab on March 27th, 2019
- Isolation of circulating tumor cells in non-small-cell-lung-cancer patients using a multi-flow microfluidic channel
Presented by Angela Quach from the Shih Lab on February 27th, 2019 - Towards repurposing the yeast peroxisome for compartmentalizing heterologous metabolic pathways
Presented by Bjorn Bean from the Martin Lab on February 20th, 2019. - Synthesis of 11-carbon terpenoids in yeast using protein and metabolic engineering
Presented by Anna Carolina Borges Pereira da Costa from the Whiteway Lab on January 30th, 2019 - Development of a multi-locus CRISPR gene drive system in budding yeast Presented by Sarmin Sultana from the Kachroo Lab on January 16th, 2019
