Smolke Lab News
June 2021 Congratulations to Prashanth for the publication of his work on engineering cellular metabolite transport in P.N.A.S.
April 2021 Congratulations to Calvin for the publication of his work on the use of neural networks for ribozyme design in Elife
March 2021 Congratulations to Aaron, Osman, and Deze for the publication of their work on in vivo mutagenesis and protein engineering in Nature Communications
March 2021 Congratulations to Brent, Joy, and Gabriel for the publication of DRIVER in Nature Communications
October 2020 Congratulations to Deze and Sijin for the publication of their work on naringenin chalcone synthase in Science Advances
September 2020 Congratulations to Prashanth for the publication of his work on tropane alkaloid biosynthesis in yeast in Nature
April 2020 Congratulations to Dr. Cameron Kim on successfully defending his PhD thesis!
April 2020 Congratulations to Ben for the publication of his work on artificial yeast promoters in Nature Communications
September 2019 Congratulations to Joy, Matias, Peter, Michaela, and Maureen for the publication of their work on RNA device engineering in Nature Communications
August 2019 Congratulations to Prashanth for the publication of his work on tropane alkaloid production in Nature Communications
June 2019 Congratulations to Melina, Cameron, and Shireen for the publication of their alternative splicing work in Nature Communications
May 2019 Congratulations to Aaron and James for the publication of their review on microbial biosynthesis of plant national products in Nature Communications
May 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Calvin Schmidt and Dr. Aaron Cravens on successfully defending their PhD theses -- on the same day!
May 2019 Congratulations to Ben for the publication of his Dhurrin paper in Metabolic Engineering Communications!
February 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Shireen Rudina on successfully defending her PhD thesis!
January 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Ben Kotopka on successfully defending his PhD thesis!
January 2019 Congratulations to Prashanth for the publication of his work collaborating with the Qi lab on Anti-CRISPR-mediated control of gene editing in Nature Communications
January 2019 Congratulations to Calvin for the publication of his RNA switch review in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives
August 2018 Congratulations to Prof. Sijin Li on her new position as Assistant Professor at Cornell University
July 2018 Congratulations to Ben for the publication of his review on SynBio strategies toward heterologous phytochemical production in Natural Product Reports
June 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Joy Xiang on successfully defending her PhD thesis!
May 2018 Congratulations to Prashanth on passing his qualifying exam and becoming a BioE PhD Candidate!
March 2018 Congratulations to Sijin and Aaron for the publication of their work on the complete biosynthesis of noscapine and halogenated alkaloids in yeast in PNAS
October 2017 Congratulations to Osman on passing his qualifying exam and becoming a ChemE PhD Candidate!
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
September 2016 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate students Peter Dykstra (BioE) and Matias Kaplan (BioE) to the group
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
May 2016 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate student Deze Kong (BioE) to the group
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
April 2021 Congratulations to Calvin for the publication of his work on the use of neural networks for ribozyme design in Elife
March 2021 Congratulations to Aaron, Osman, and Deze for the publication of their work on in vivo mutagenesis and protein engineering in Nature Communications
March 2021 Congratulations to Brent, Joy, and Gabriel for the publication of DRIVER in Nature Communications
October 2020 Congratulations to Deze and Sijin for the publication of their work on naringenin chalcone synthase in Science Advances
September 2020 Congratulations to Prashanth for the publication of his work on tropane alkaloid biosynthesis in yeast in Nature
April 2020 Congratulations to Dr. Cameron Kim on successfully defending his PhD thesis!
April 2020 Congratulations to Ben for the publication of his work on artificial yeast promoters in Nature Communications
September 2019 Congratulations to Joy, Matias, Peter, Michaela, and Maureen for the publication of their work on RNA device engineering in Nature Communications
August 2019 Congratulations to Prashanth for the publication of his work on tropane alkaloid production in Nature Communications
June 2019 Congratulations to Melina, Cameron, and Shireen for the publication of their alternative splicing work in Nature Communications
May 2019 Congratulations to Aaron and James for the publication of their review on microbial biosynthesis of plant national products in Nature Communications
May 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Calvin Schmidt and Dr. Aaron Cravens on successfully defending their PhD theses -- on the same day!
May 2019 Congratulations to Ben for the publication of his Dhurrin paper in Metabolic Engineering Communications!
February 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Shireen Rudina on successfully defending her PhD thesis!
January 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Ben Kotopka on successfully defending his PhD thesis!
January 2019 Congratulations to Prashanth for the publication of his work collaborating with the Qi lab on Anti-CRISPR-mediated control of gene editing in Nature Communications
January 2019 Congratulations to Calvin for the publication of his RNA switch review in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives
August 2018 Congratulations to Prof. Sijin Li on her new position as Assistant Professor at Cornell University
July 2018 Congratulations to Ben for the publication of his review on SynBio strategies toward heterologous phytochemical production in Natural Product Reports
June 2018 Congratulations to Dr. Joy Xiang on successfully defending her PhD thesis!
May 2018 Congratulations to Prashanth on passing his qualifying exam and becoming a BioE PhD Candidate!
March 2018 Congratulations to Sijin and Aaron for the publication of their work on the complete biosynthesis of noscapine and halogenated alkaloids in yeast in PNAS
October 2017 Congratulations to Osman on passing his qualifying exam and becoming a ChemE PhD Candidate!
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
September 2016 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate students Peter Dykstra (BioE) and Matias Kaplan (BioE) to the group
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
May 2016 Smolke Lab welcomes new graduate student Deze Kong (BioE) to the group
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