Members of the Chaput Lab would like to congratulate Prof. Chaput on being elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Lynnette Jackson – Stanford Bound!
The Chaput lab would like to express our biggest congratulations to Lynnette Jackson, who recently finished her undergraduate career at UCI and is now headed to Stanford University to pursue a PhD in the department of Structural Biology. We thank Lynnette for all her hard work and commitment to the Chaput lab the past three years…
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Chaput Lab at 2018 IRT Meeting
The Chaput lab took multiple lab members to the International Round Table conference held at the University of California, San Diego by the International Society of Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids. From August 26th to the 30th, graduate students (Jen-Yu Liao, Saikat Bala, and Ali Nikoomanzar), as well as research scientists, Nicholas Chim, presented posters on…
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Jen-Yu Liao – IRT Poster Award
The Chaput lab would like to congratulate our very own graduate student, Jen-Yu Liao, on his recent ‘Best Poster Award’ at the most recent International Round Table Meeting in La Jolla, CA from August 26th-30th. At the nucleic acid focused conference, Jen-Yu presented his work in a poster entitled “Synthesis and Evolution of a Threose…
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Anh Trinh – Fall 2018 UROP Award
Congratulations to Anh Trinh, one of the Chaput lab undergraduates, who recently was awarded a UROP award for this upcoming Fall 2018 to understand and probe the mechanism of unnatural nucleotide replication in engineered DNA polymerases.
Read MoreMouhamad Shehabat – 2018 SURP Award
Congratulations to Mouhamad Shehabat, one of the Chaput lab undergraduates, who recently was awarded a SURP award for this Summer 2018 in order to look at the unnatural nucleotide replication in engineered DNA polymerases by x-ray crystallography.
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Awarded $1M Keck Grant
Congratulations to Prof. Chaput and Prof. Spitale for the recent awarding of $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation.
Read More“Expanding the Chemical Diversity of TNA with tUTP Derivatives that are Substrates for a TNA Polymerase” Manuscript Accepted
The TNA UTP base analog manuscript, entitled “Expanding the Chemical Diversity of TNA with tUTP Derivatives that are Substrates for a TNA Polymerase”, has just been accepted into Chemical Communication!
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Phuong Tran – New Undergraduate Student
The Chaput Lab welcomes Phuong Tran! She is a new undergraduate student in the lab, studying organic chemistry and TNA chemical synthesis.
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Anh Trinh – New Undergraduate Student
The Chaput Lab welcomes Anh Trinh! She is a new undergraduate student in the lab, studying protein x-ray crystallography.
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