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Melanie Rasmussen
Anders Cameron
Anders is a 4th year undergrad who joined the Adamala lab in the summer of 2021. He is working on a project that involves modeling cell compartmentalization in liposomes using coacervate-forming proteins and on a project for modeling PURE. Outside of lab, he likes cross country skiing, mountain biking, traveling, and eating at local restaurants.
Joshua Davisson
Josh completed his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Montana State University before joining the Adamala-Engelhart lab in 2022. During his undergraduate years, he worked in Dr. Susy Kohout’s lab on voltage sensing phosphatases.
Josh is interested in noncanonical amino acid incorporation, flexizymes, ribosomes, organic synthesis, and cell free protein expression.
He fills his free time with mountains and mimolette, hiking, havarti, and horses, baking, brie, and birding.
Synthetic cell pathway to FDA
SynCell 2022
Evan presented a poster, and Orion and Kate did a liposome demo at SynCell 2022. 
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Expanding luciferase reporter systems for cell-free protein expression; |
Building Artificial Cells with Kate Adamala | Late Night Conference
Kate Adamala wants to make life from scratch! As Professor at University of Minnesota working on the origins of life and building a synthetic cell, Kate’s work touches on astrobiology, synthetic cell engineering, and biocomputing. Kate and her team create tiny bioreactors. These have applications in synthetic biology, drug development and biosensing. Building Artificial Cells with Kate Adamala | Late Night Conference with Wilhelm Huck 2×05.
Fargo Theater public lecture
Kate gave talk at the Fargo Theater on engineering synthetic life.
new publication
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Traditional protocols and optimization methods lead to absent expression in mycoplasma cell-free gene expression platform |
The life of our Last Universal Common Ancestor
Synthetic biology allows us to build minimal cell-like systems, to investigate origin of life and build tools for space exploration.
The life of our Last Universal Common Ancestor | LAS 2021.