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.
Kaitlin Stokes

I am working on a B.S. in Genetics, Cellular Biology, and Development at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and I am expected to graduate in spring 2020. After graduation I plan on going to grad school. Some of my research interests include diseases, drug therapies and delivery, vaccines, stem cells, and synthetic biology. Some of my other interests include shopping, Netflix, and hanging out with friends.
Contact: stoke102@umn.edu
Ben Bachan

Contact: bfbachan@umn.edu
Matthew Pawlak

Contact: pawla019@umn.edu