Kate went to Santa Fe Institute Workshop “Major Transitions in Life: Origins to Translations”, a kick-off meeting for Exploring life’s origins project at Santa Fe Institute.
new publication

Lin Jin, Aaron E. Engelhart, Weicheng Zhang, Katarzyna Adamala, Jack W. Szostak
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 44, 15016-15021, doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b09617
Synthetic Biology for Defense Workshop
Kate presented at Synthetic Biology for Defense Workshop in Arlington, Virginia.
Jose won HHMI fellowship
Congratulations for Jose Alejo, he was named this year’s Hanna H. Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Hanna Gray Fellows
BaSyC symposium
Kate presented at 1st International Symposium on Building a Synthetic Cell , amazing meeting dedicated to construction of synthetic cells.
New publication

Joseph M. Heili, Jose Gomez-Garcia, Nathaniel J. Gaut, Brock W. Cash, Lauren M. Aufdembrink, Brent A. Heffron, Joshua D. Shirley, Erin E. Carlson, Katarzyna P. Adamala, and Aaron E. Engelhart
J. Chem. Educ.,, 2018, 95 (10), pp 1867–1871; DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00735
local copy pdf
publisher website
Build-A-Cell workshop #3
We hosted Build-a-Cell Workshop #3 in Minneapolis.
Amazing group of people discussing ways to make life.
The Next Revolution: Genome Engineering 2018
Kate presented at Annual Conference of the Genome Writers Guild
Biocomputing
Our lab is part of a new project to support large scale developement of biocomputing technologies, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC).
synthetic cells in space!
Our synthetic cell experiment launched today at NASA Wallops!
The take off was luckily uneventfull, we’re excited to start analyzing data now.