Contact: aufde025@umn.edu
Grad student, works on projects jointly with Engelhart lab.
Contact: aufde025@umn.edu
Grad student, works on projects jointly with Engelhart lab.
Kate and Brock were attending Build-a-Cell #2 Workshop, hosted at Stanford.
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Kate participated in What is life conversation about origins and earliest evolution of life , led by Carl Zimmer at Caveat in New York City.
Kate talked and run a workshop at 2017 Envision meeting at Princeton.
Kate is judging 2017 iGem during 2017 Giant Jamboree in Boston.
Kate talked about synthetic cell technologies for biomimicry at Nature-Inspired Exploration for Aerospace Summit at Ohio Aerospace Institute.
Kate visited Abbvie to talk about using synthetic cells for cell-mediate therapy.
Contact: jalejoam@umn.edu
Jose L. Alejo received his B.Sc. in physics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, numerically studying a mathematical model of viral budding. In 2009, he obtained his M.Sc. in physics, during which he studied small vesicle fusion and uptake into human astrocyte cells, under Professors Chad Leidy and John M. Gonzalez.
He continued to pursue doctoral studies at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, where he initially studied the effects of small molecules on lipid bilayers under Professor Olaf Andersen and then wrote his dissertation on the study of ribosome machinery biophysics through single-molecule imaging techniques under Professor Scott Blanchard.
Currently, he is developing platforms for the compartmentalized, controlled evolution of the translation machinery, with views towards both origin of life and biotechnology research.
Jose works on projects jointly with Engelhart lab.
Jose is Hanna H. Gray Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Kate was a speaker at EON Workshop on Universal Biology at ELSI in Tokyo.