Victoria Maola – 2019-2020 UROP Award

The Chaput lab would like to congratulate our very own undergraduate, Victoria Maola for her award of the UCI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) fellowship for the 2019-2021 academic year!

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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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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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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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Hacking from within a DNA Synthesizer

Scientists from UCI and UCR have come together to investigate the ability to hack and obtain the genetic blueprint of oligomer sequences, by interpreting the sounds emitted from a DNA synthesizer. Read more at the issued UCI New Brief and the brief in The New York Times.

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Hui Mei – Newest Faculty Member!

The Chaput lab would like to extend our congratulations to Dr. Hui Mei, who has recently accepted a faculty position from the Institute of Synthetic Biology (iSynBio) of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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