DTE Lab in the News

From Northwestern Engineering News: AIMBE fellows represent the top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers in academia, industry, education, clinical practice, and government. Advancing innovation to improve healthcare and the safety of society, fellows have...

From Northwestern Engineering News: Northwestern Engineering’s Julius Lucks and Danielle Tullman-Ercek have been named co-directors of Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB). Read the full article here: Julius Lucks, Danielle Tullman-Ercek to Lead Center...

From Northwestern Engineering News: Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), recognized leaders in the growing field of synthetic biology, recently received significant grant awards from the Army for basic research projects...

From Northwestern Engineering News: “Opera Bioscience, a biotechnology startup cofounded by Northwestern Engineering’s Danielle Tullman-Ercek, has won the 2022 Equalize Pitch Competition. Presented by the Office of Technology Management at Washington University in St....

From Northwestern Now: Those who have tried to pry a mussel from wood or rock know how stubborn the underwater mollusk is. Its gluey secret has long captivated scientists. For years, researchers have attempted to replicate the extraordinary adhesive and its properties...

Now, a Northwestern University-led team has provided the basis for a technique to enhance the effects of an enzyme that breaks down polyester — the plastic used to make soda bottles and inexpensive clothing (and commercially termed PET) — into its fundamental parts, a...

Read about Professor Tullman-Ercek on Congressman Foster’s science council: A New Type of Teaching | Inside Our Program | Master of Science in Biotechnology | Northwestern Engineering Read about the impact of MBP: Realizing the Impact of MBP | Inside Our Program |...

Professor Danielle Tullman-Ercek was elected to serve as an expert on Congressman Foster’s Science Council, promoting fully incorporate science-derived information into policy decision-making. From https://mailchi.mp/fas/cspi-pr-2021-06-22?e=1cb8795bdc.

From Northwestern Chemistry of Life Processes Newsletter: CLP recently caught up with Tullman-Ercek, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director, Master of Science in Biotechnology Program, McCormick School of Engineering, to learn more...

From Northwestern Engineering News: A team of researchers including Northwestern Engineering faculty has expanded the understanding of how virus shells self-assemble, an important step toward developing techniques that use viruses as vehicles to deliver targeted drugs...

From Northwestern Center for Synthetic Biology: To jump-start the design and engineering of synthetic cells, the National Science Foundation has awarded an 800k grant to researchers at Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology. NSF’s Design and Engineering of...

From Northwestern Center for Synthetic Biology: The Leonard and Tullman-Ercek labs partnered with the Science Explorer program at Mather High School to host students for a hands-on synthetic biology experience. Read the rest of the article here: Leonard and...

From NPR: The University of Hawaii runs an experiment funded by NASA entitled HI-SEAS. In HI-SEAS, 6 people live in a habitat designed to simulate a mission on Mars for 8 months. Jay, a visiting scholar in our lab, is one of the six who will be living in the Mars...

From Northwestern Engineering News: Earlier this year, Michael Asensio and Norma Morella co-authored a paper in Nano Letters about how a single mutation reshaped the viral capsid MS2 into the smaller variant mini-MS2. Both Northwestern University and the Lawrence...