The Chaput Lab welcomes Allan Argelagos! He will be a new graduate student in the lab, studying organic chemistry synthesis.
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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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Jen-Yu Liao – PhD Graduate!
The Chaput lab would like to congratulate Jen-Yu Liao for his conferred PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. After a successful defense in November 2018, Dr. Liao is now headed to Nitto Denko Avecia Biotech in Cincinnati, Ohio for a position as a research scientists working on oligomer synthesis.
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Prof. Chaput – 2018 AAAS Fellow
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 – Summer 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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