
Yu Zhou: PhD Defense
Lab member Yu Zhou successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Sensing and Regulation using Nucleic Acid Devices”. Congratulations, Yu!
The latest news and developments from the Green lab at BU.
Lab member Yu Zhou successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Sensing and Regulation using Nucleic Acid Devices”. Congratulations, Yu!
Lab member Michael Staren successfully defended his Barrett Honors Thesis describing new strategies for microRNA detection. Congratulations, Michael!
Lab member Yuexin Li successfully defended her Master’s thesis describing new completely sequence-independent riboregulators. Congratulations, Yuexin!
Noroviruses are a primary cause of foodborne illness that affect millions of people each year. In OUP Synthetic Biology, we describe a norovirus assay that integrates paper-based cell-free reactions with synbody viral enrichment to provide a 1000-fold improvement in detection limit compared to our earlier Zika assay.
Lab member Ahmed Yousaf successfully defended his PhD thesis today. He will be taking a job with Intel. Congratulations, Ahmed!
Semiconducting 2D MoS2 is extremely chemically inert and has required harsh chemistries to covalently modify its surface. In Chemistry of Materials, we demonstrate with the Wang and Santos labs that mild diazonium chemistries can covalently modify MoS2 and be used to tether active proteins to its surface.
Our Viewpoint article on RNA-based in vivo computing systems was published in the journal Biochemistry today. It describes our recent work in the area and potential future directions.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year, $2.1 million grant to ASU Biodesign Institute professor and School of Molecular Sciences faculty member Alexander Green to pursue innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research. (ASU News story)
In collaboration with the Fan and Yan labs, we have published a review paper in Nature Chemistry covering the recent progress and future possibilities of using nucleic acid nanotechnology in living cells.
In new research, Alex Green, a professor at ASU’s Biodesign Institute, demonstrates how living cells can be induced to carry out computations in the manner of tiny robots or computers. The study appears in the advance online edition of the journal Nature. (ASU News story)