Kate and Aaron are visiting Ting Zhu at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
New Lab member
Welcome Brock Cash to the lab!
Brains on! podcast
Aaron and Kate did NPR podcast on the origin of life – Brains on!
Innovations in Biology – Advancing Biomanufacturing
Kate gave a talk, while Joe and Nathan presented posters at Grand Challenges Vision Symposium Innovations in Biology – Advancing Biomanufacturing
Congratulations Jose!
Jose Gomez-Garcia won 2nd place poster presentation prize at CBS Postdoc Symposium.
New publication

Small and Random Peptides: An Unexplored Reservoir of Potentially Functional Primitive Organocatalysts. The Case of Seryl-Histidine;
Rafal Wieczorek, Katarzyna Adamala, Tecla Gasperi, Fabio Polticelli and Pasquale Stano;
Life, 2017, doi:10.3390/life7020019;
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publisher website link
Rafal Wieczorek, Katarzyna Adamala, Tecla Gasperi, Fabio Polticelli and Pasquale Stano;
Life, 2017, doi:10.3390/life7020019;
local copy pdf
publisher website link
New Lab member
Welcome Kei Takahashi to the lab!
Biological Complexity: Can it be Quantified?
Kate at Physics of Living Matter workshop at the Beyond Center, ASU.
@UCSF
Kate at UCSF, seminar, “Life but not alive: building a cell from scratch”
Ask Me Anything about synthetic cells
Reddit AMA on synthetic minimal cells, answering questions from the public about our work. AskScience AMA Synthetic Cells.