Kate participated in What is life conversation about origins and earliest evolution of life , led by Carl Zimmer at Caveat in New York City.
Princeton Envision
Kate talked and run a workshop at 2017 Envision meeting at Princeton.
iGem 2017
NASA Biomimicry
Kate talked about synthetic cell technologies for biomimicry at Nature-Inspired Exploration for Aerospace Summit at Ohio Aerospace Institute.
Cell mediated therapy
Kate visited Abbvie to talk about using synthetic cells for cell-mediate therapy.
Jose Alejo Amaya
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.
EON Workshop on Universal Biology
Kate was a speaker at EON Workshop on Universal Biology at ELSI in Tokyo.
Engineering genetic circuit interactions within and between synthetic minimal cells and use therefor
ES Boyden, KP Adamala, DA Martin‐Alarcon
US Patent App. 62/294,586, 2016
Brock Cash
Contact: cash0066@umn.edu
Brock Cash graduated from Bethel University in 2012 with a B.S. in Chemistry.
He spent his undergraduate years working for Life-Science Innovations helping research novel vaccines for the poultry industry, and, upon graduation, worked in Quality Control and as an Electrician until pursuing an M.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology in 2015 at Saint Cloud State University. His thesis focused on using Yeast-Two Hybrid screens to discover and characterize putative protein partners of a suspected DNA licensing protein in Toxoplasma gondii, and graduated in late 2016.
He recently finished an internship with Life-Science Innovations exploring the application of Fluid Bed Coating for vaccine development. In 2016, Brock joined the Adamala-Engelhart Lab to work on current projects.
In his free time, Brock enjoys ordering himself and creating disorder around him (typically in the form of eating food), reading, music, and learning about history and its relation to geopolitics.
