Announcements
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019
2024
| 2024 Aug 3 | Matthew Lucia is selected as a Synthetic Biology Across Scales trainee, and Madeline Mills is selected as a Biotechnology Training Program cluster member. Congratulation Matthew and Madeline! |
| 2024 Jun 17 | Undergraduate students George Magoola (SynBREA), Natalia Barna (DeFeo Foundation URI), Grace Hancock, and Yaleska Sosa-Azcarraga (NU Bioscientist program) join the lab for the summer. |
| 2024 Apr 4 | Annie Gomez is selected for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Annie! |
| 2024 Jan 4 | DTE lab welcomes Ph.D. students Matthew Lucia (co-advised with the Kamat lab) and Madeline Mills to join our group. Dhanvi Vemulapalli will also be continuing in our lab as a Ph.D. student after completing his master’s degree! |
2023
| 2023 Dec 10 | Dr. Carolyn Mills leaves our lab to become an Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Congratulations, Carrie, and we will miss you! |
| 2023 Sep 1 | DTE lab welcomes Master’s in Biotechnology student Weronika Ptaszek and postdoctoral fellow Yu Liu to join our group. |
| 2023 Aug 16 | Congratulations to Dhanvi Vemulapalli on passing his master’s defense! |
| 2023 Aug 3 | Annie Gomez is selected as a Synthetic Biology Across Scales trainee, Shiqi Liang is selected as a Molecular Biophysics Training Program trainee, and Rogelio Alvarado is selected as a Biotechnology Training Program cluster member. Congratulations Annie, Shiqi, and Roger! |
| 2023 Jun 19 | Undergraduate students Lee Bristol (SynBREU) and Abi Lopez Alonso (CLP summer student) and MRSEC RET teacher Tiffany Johnson join the lab for the summer. |
| 2023 Jun 9 | Congratulations to our Master’s in Biotechnology students, Emily Gamero and Ashleigh Acker, on their graduation! |
| 2023 Jun 1 | DTE lab welcomes Ph.D. students Shiqi Liang, Jake Miller, and Rogelio Alvarado to join our group. |
| 2023 Apr 7 | Congratulations to Dr. Julie Ming Liang on passing her Ph.D. defense! |
| 2023 Mar 29 | Maddie Joseph is selected for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Maddie! |
| 2023 Feb 14 | Julie’s paper about on constitutively active type III secretion systems was published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology |
| 2023 Feb 14 | Congratulations to Dr. Nolan Kennedy on passing his Ph.D. defense! |
| 2023 Feb 6 | Professor Tullman-Ercek is named co-director of Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology! |
| 2023 Jan 4 | Bon’s paper about systematic engineering of virus-like particles was published in Virology |
2022
| 2022 Dec 15 | DTE lab welcomes Ph.D. students Maddie Joseph (co-advised with the Dunn lab) and Annie Gomez (co-advised with the Olvera de la Cruz lab) to join our group. |
| 2022 Aug 3 | Elizabeth Johnson and Jordan Summers are selected as Synthetic Biology Across Scales and Biotechnology Training Program trainees. Congratulations Elizabeth and Jordan! |
| 2022 Jul 25 | Daniel de Castro Assumpcao is selected as a Chemistry of Life processes trainee. Congratulations Daniel! |
| 2022 Jun 29 | Carrie, Nolan, and Charlotte’s paper about the microcompartment vertex protein PduN was published in Nature Communications |
| 2022 Jun 20 | Undergraduate REU students Mac Catanag and Swetha Chandrasekar (SynBREU) and Lydia Taylor (MRSEC REU) join the lab for the summer. |
| 2022 Jun 3 | Congratulation to Dr. Sam Leach on passing his Ph.D. thesis defense! |
| 2022 Jun 1 | DTE lab welcomes Ph.D. students Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel de Castro Assumpcao, and Jordan Summers to join our group. |
| 2022 May 26 | Congratulations to Dr. Yusu Chen on passing his Ph.D. thesis defense! |
| 2022 May 16 | Nolan, Carrie, and Charlotte’s paper on the role of the Pdu microcompartment shell protein PduB was published in Journal of Bacteriology |
| 2022 Apr 28 | Congratulations to Dr. Charlotte Abrahamson on passing her Ph.D. thesis defense! |
| 2022 Apr 3 | Elizabeth Johnson receives an NSF GRFP honorable mention. Congratulations Elizabeth! |
| 2022 Feb 1 | Check out Nolan and Carrie’s paper about GeneGrouper, a computational tool for grouping gene clusters, in Bioinformatics |
2021
2020
2019
| 2019 Feb 26 | Our methods chapter on cargo encapsulation in bacterial microcompartments is now available! |
| 2019 Feb 07 | Nolan, Bon, and Professor Tullman-Ercek visit high school students to talk about careers in chemical engineering and biology. |
| 2019 Jan 16 | Professor Tullman-Ercek presented at the 18th annual PepTalk conference. |
| 2019 Jan 6 | Taylor presented her work on cargo encapsulation in 1,2 PDU microcompartments at the ICBE Conference. |