Michael Sherer has won a Northwestern Undergraduate Research Grant (URG) for his proposal on engineering and analysis of yeast cell wall permeability.
Michael Reddick has won a summer REU in Dr. Todd Martin’s lab at UW-Madison.
Great Work!
Awards & Honors
Honors for member or former members of Tyo lab.
Collaborative Chicago Biomedical Consortium Grant Awarded
Professors Keith EJ Tyo (Northwestern), Konrad Kording (Northwestern), Doug Bishop (Univ. of Chicago), and Lucia Rothman-Dennes (Univ. of Chicago) were awarded a collaborative grant for the project ‘A Molecular Chart Recorder.’
Broadbelt & Tyo Awarded Gates Grand Challenges Grant
Prof. Broadbelt & Prof. Tyo endeavor to significantly decrease the price of drugs that treat HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. Many important drugs are too expensive to be purchased in resource-poor countries. Current chemical synthesis methods for producing many of these drugs require expensive reagents and have very low yields. Prof. Broadbelt and Tyo will develop novel biosynthetic processes to make these same compounds. Biosynthetic processes use cheap reagents (i.e. sugar) and precisely control chemistry. By developing more efficient biosynthetic production, the project could dramatically expand the use of these drugs in poor countries, and reduce the mortality and spread of diseases.
Gates Grand Challenges Initiative
Matt wins Biotech Cluster fellowship.
Congratulations to Matt Moura! Matt was selected for the Northwestern Biotech Cluster Fellowship.
http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/academics/academic-programs/cluster-certificate/sciences/biotechnology/index.html
Keith is now well behind the pack in the Tyo lab for fundraising…. he better catch up!
Karthik Sekar wins ARCS Foundation Scholarship
Karthik is a 2011-2012 ARCS Foundation Scholar. This competition is between Chicago area schools (Univ. of Chicago, Northwestern, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University of Chicago)
Chicago ARCS Scholars pursue master’s and doctoral degrees in a wide range of subjects involving leading-edge technologies in science and engineering. Representative university departments eligible to sponsor ARCS Scholars include artificial intelligence, biochemistry, biology, cell and molecular biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geological science, immunology, mathematics, medicine, and physics.
Karthik awarded the NSF GRFP Fellowship
Karthik was selected to receive a 2011 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship!