
Our very first lab member.
Left to attend medical school

Our very first lab member.
Left to attend medical school
Kate presented concept of building synthetic minimal cells, with its biotechnological, biomedical and basic science implications, in a TEDx talk “Life but not alive”.
Welcome Joe Heili to the lab!

Engineering genetic circuit interactions within and between synthetic minimal cells;
Katarzyna P. Adamala*, Daniel A. Martin-Alarcon*, Katriona R. Guthrie-Honea, Edward S. Boyden;
Nature Chemistry, 9, 431-439, 2017, doi:10.1038/nchem.2644; *equal contribution
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Our lab become affiliated with the Masonic Canter Center.
We’re proud to become part of this amazing research community.
So we are working on building “simplified cells” now. Associated Press noticed (local copy pdf).
So did MPR news (local copy pdf).
Welcome Jose Gomez-Garcia to the lab!


Astrobiology Primer 2.0.;
Domagal-Goldman and Wright et al. (includes chapter editor K.P.Adamala)
Astrobiology, 2016, 16(8):561-653. doi:10.1089/ast.2015.1460
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