Congratulations to Ruben Echeverria, an incoming UCI transfer student, on his oral presentation at the 2019 Bridges Research Symposium on Thursday, August 15th.
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Research
Students in the Chaput lab are working to develop the enzymes, reagents, and tools needed to synthesize, propagate, and evolve artificial genetic polymers (XNAs) with new physicochemical properties. This is a highly interdisciplinary research program that includes organic chemistry, enzyme engineering, droplet microfluidics, and X-ray crystallography. The long-term goals of our research are to: study…
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Publications
Complete journal publication list from 1997 to present.
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Ruben Echeverria – 2019 Bridges Research Symposium
Eva Huang – 2019 SURF Research Symposium
Congratulations to Eva Huang, a UCR undergraduate, on presenting her poster at the 2019 Summer Undergraduate Research Program on Thursday, August 15th.
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Victoria Maola – Summer 2019 SURP Award
The Chaput lab would like to congratulate our very own undergraduate, Victoria Maola for her award of the UCI Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) fellowship for summer 2019! Her proposed research project is structural studies that probe the mechanism of TNA polymerases towards the engineering of new enzymes with improved catalytic rates, in which she will be…
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Anh Trinh – UCSF Bound!
The Chaput lab would like to express our biggest congratulations to Anh Trinh, who recently finished her undergraduate career at UCI and is now headed to the University of California, San Francisco to pursue a PharmD in School of Pharmacy.
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Mauricio Jacobo – UCSF Bound!
The Chaput lab would like to express our biggest congratulations to Mauricio Jacobo, who recently finished his undergraduate career at UCI and is now headed to the University of California, San Francisco to pursue a PhD in the department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology.
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Alex Vorperian – USC Bound!
The Chaput Lab would like to congratulation staff member, Alex Vorperian, on his matriculation to medical school at USC starting this Fall.
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Kefan Yang – New Graduate Student
The Chaput Lab welcomes Kefan Yang! He will be a new graduate student in the lab, studying information storage. Kefan Yang comes with a bioengineering background. We look forward to expanding his experience as the lab investigates TNA and its ability to transfer genetic information back and forth between DNA.
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Sunit Jana – New Research Scientist
The Chaput Lab welcomes Dr. Sunit Jana! He is a new research scientist in the lab to assist our efforts in organic chemistry synthesis.
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Victoria Maolo – New Undergraduate Student
The Chaput Lab welcomes Victoria Maolo! She will be a new undergraduate student in the lab, studying structural biology, specifically X-ray crystallography.
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Allan Argelagos – New Graduate Student
The Chaput Lab welcomes Allan Argelagos! He will be a new graduate student in the lab, studying organic chemistry synthesis.
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