Michelle Garcia and Grant Nicholas join the Tyo lab as research assistants. Welcome!
News
Tyo Lab releases webFBA
webFBA, an easy-to-use flux balance analysis tool for E. coli and yeast was released on Jan. 1, 2012. Harman Singh and Karthik Sekar developed the website.
Feel free to contact us if you would like help using the tool
Patrick, Michelle, Angela, Dante, Michael, and Divya join the lab
Welcome to Patrick, Michelle, Angela, Dante, Michael, and Divya to the Tyo lab!
Patrick and Angela come through the Masters in Biotechnology Program, Michelle through the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program, and Dante through the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Michael and Divya are both Northwestern Undergraduates. We look forward to having them around!
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
Northwestern iGEM Team Competes in World Competition
Great Job to Northwestern’s team, and their N.U. P.A.L. project.
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!
William joins the lab.
William Rodríguez-Limas has joined the lab as a post doc. William just completed his PhD from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Welcome William!
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.
Group celebrates lab set up
With all major equipment set up and cell cultures growing (with mixed result), we celebrated our victory at Tapas Barcelona. It was a fun night of bacon-wrapped dates, goat cheese dips, and sangria.
Matt's half way in the picture like how he's half way in the lab.
Special thanks to the Jewett, Leonard, Miller, Notestein, Amaral, and Broadbelt groups for helping us set up the lab. They’ve provided advice, assembly tools, and random small items we forget to order!