Smolke Lab News
June 2017 Smolke Lab welcomes summer SSRP-Amgen undergraduate scholar Colin Kim (UCSB)
May 2017 Congratulations to Dr. Melina Mathur on the successful defense of her PhD dissertation!
April 2017 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate students Osman Jamil (ChemE) and Prashanth Srinivasan (BioE) to the group
January 2017 Congratulations to Melina and Joy for the publication of their review on mammalian synthetic biology for studying the cell in the Journal of Cell Biology
November 2016 Congratulations to Yen-Hsiang, Maureen, and Tammy for the publication of their work designing and constructing generalizable RNA-protein hybrid controllers in Cell Systems
August 2016 Congratulations to Maureen, Yen-Hsiang, Aaron, and Maung Nyan for the publication of their work engineering a microbial platform for de novo biosynthesis of diverse methylxanthines in Metabolic Engineering
July 2016 Congratulations to Yanran for the publication of her work engineering the biosynthesis of noscapine in yeast in Nature Communications
April 2016 Congratulations to Cameron Kim for winning a Best Poster Award at the Stanford Bioengineering Retreat in Santa Cruz, CA
December 2015 Congratulations to Dr. Christina Smolke for being honored in Nature's 10 of top ten people who mattered in 2015!
December 2015 Congratulations to Kathy for having her research on cell cycle control selected as Editor's Choice in Synthetic Biology in Science Translational Medicine
November 2015 Congratulations to Kathy for the publication of her work on engineering cell cycle control with synthetic RNA devices in the Journal of Biological Engineering
September 2015 Congratulations to Maureen and Yen-Hsiang for the publication of their work on RNA-based gene expression control in ACS Chemical Biology
August 2015 The Smolke Lab's work on biosynthesis of opioids in yeast was covered in Scientific American, Business Insider, Forbes, NPR, Chemistry World, The Scientist, The Verge, Quartz, Smithsonian, LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, New York Times, AAAS, Science News, Wired, and others
August 2015 Congratulations to Stephanie, Kate, Isis, and Maria for the publication of their work on the complete biosynthesis of opioids in yeast in Science
August 2015 Congratulations to Brent, Drew, and Joy for the publication of their work on high-throughput RNA device engineering in Nature Methods
July 2015 Congratulations to Isis, Mike, and Kate for the publication of their work on de novo reticuline production in yeast in Metabolic Engineering
June 2015 Smolke Lab welcomes summer REU students Michaela Hinks, Emily Marx, and Alaina Schumate
January 2015 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate student Cameron Kim (BioE) to the group
September 2014 Congratulations to Ryan and Sally for the publication of their work on quantitative frameworks for miRNA regulatory networks in Nature Methods
September 2014 The Smolke Lab’s work on microbial biosynthesis technologies for opioids was covered in The Economist, New Scientist, Science in Action, Inside Science, and others
August 2014 Congratulations to Kate and Stephanie for the publication of their work on microbial biosynthesis platforms for opioids in Nature Chemical Biology
July 2014 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate student Calvin Schmidt (BioE) to the group
July 2014 Smolke Lab has moved into its new space in the Shriram Center for Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering
June 2014 Congratulations to Drs. Ryan Bloom, Andrew Chang, Andrew Kennedy, Michael Siddiqui, Isis Trenchard, and Jay Vowles for successfully defending their theses!
June 2014 Smolke Lab welcomes summer rotation students Cameron Kim (BioE), Calvin Schmidt (BioE), Eric Trac (Med School)
June 2014 Smolke Lab welcomes undergraduate summer REU students Claudia Dennler and Emily Marx
June 2014 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate students Ben Kotopka (BioE), Michael Reddick (ChemE), Shireen Rudina (BioE), and Morgan Paull (joint with Porteus Lab) to the group
May 2017 Congratulations to Dr. Melina Mathur on the successful defense of her PhD dissertation!
April 2017 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate students Osman Jamil (ChemE) and Prashanth Srinivasan (BioE) to the group
January 2017 Congratulations to Melina and Joy for the publication of their review on mammalian synthetic biology for studying the cell in the Journal of Cell Biology
November 2016 Congratulations to Yen-Hsiang, Maureen, and Tammy for the publication of their work designing and constructing generalizable RNA-protein hybrid controllers in Cell Systems
August 2016 Congratulations to Maureen, Yen-Hsiang, Aaron, and Maung Nyan for the publication of their work engineering a microbial platform for de novo biosynthesis of diverse methylxanthines in Metabolic Engineering
July 2016 Congratulations to Yanran for the publication of her work engineering the biosynthesis of noscapine in yeast in Nature Communications
April 2016 Congratulations to Cameron Kim for winning a Best Poster Award at the Stanford Bioengineering Retreat in Santa Cruz, CA
December 2015 Congratulations to Dr. Christina Smolke for being honored in Nature's 10 of top ten people who mattered in 2015!
December 2015 Congratulations to Kathy for having her research on cell cycle control selected as Editor's Choice in Synthetic Biology in Science Translational Medicine
November 2015 Congratulations to Kathy for the publication of her work on engineering cell cycle control with synthetic RNA devices in the Journal of Biological Engineering
September 2015 Congratulations to Maureen and Yen-Hsiang for the publication of their work on RNA-based gene expression control in ACS Chemical Biology
August 2015 The Smolke Lab's work on biosynthesis of opioids in yeast was covered in Scientific American, Business Insider, Forbes, NPR, Chemistry World, The Scientist, The Verge, Quartz, Smithsonian, LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, New York Times, AAAS, Science News, Wired, and others
August 2015 Congratulations to Stephanie, Kate, Isis, and Maria for the publication of their work on the complete biosynthesis of opioids in yeast in Science
August 2015 Congratulations to Brent, Drew, and Joy for the publication of their work on high-throughput RNA device engineering in Nature Methods
July 2015 Congratulations to Isis, Mike, and Kate for the publication of their work on de novo reticuline production in yeast in Metabolic Engineering
June 2015 Smolke Lab welcomes summer REU students Michaela Hinks, Emily Marx, and Alaina Schumate
January 2015 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate student Cameron Kim (BioE) to the group
September 2014 Congratulations to Ryan and Sally for the publication of their work on quantitative frameworks for miRNA regulatory networks in Nature Methods
September 2014 The Smolke Lab’s work on microbial biosynthesis technologies for opioids was covered in The Economist, New Scientist, Science in Action, Inside Science, and others
August 2014 Congratulations to Kate and Stephanie for the publication of their work on microbial biosynthesis platforms for opioids in Nature Chemical Biology
July 2014 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate student Calvin Schmidt (BioE) to the group
July 2014 Smolke Lab has moved into its new space in the Shriram Center for Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering
June 2014 Congratulations to Drs. Ryan Bloom, Andrew Chang, Andrew Kennedy, Michael Siddiqui, Isis Trenchard, and Jay Vowles for successfully defending their theses!
June 2014 Smolke Lab welcomes summer rotation students Cameron Kim (BioE), Calvin Schmidt (BioE), Eric Trac (Med School)
June 2014 Smolke Lab welcomes undergraduate summer REU students Claudia Dennler and Emily Marx
June 2014 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate students Ben Kotopka (BioE), Michael Reddick (ChemE), Shireen Rudina (BioE), and Morgan Paull (joint with Porteus Lab) to the group