The Lucks group focuses on dynamically programming cellular behavior with synthetic RNA circuitry. They create new classes of programmable RNA regulators with protein-like dynamic ranges, and use SHAPE-Seq to understand RNA folding dynamics in the cell.
Julius Lucks, assistant professor (CBE), has received the 2016 Young Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society’s journal ACS Synthetic Biology.
The award was established in 2014 and recognizes the contributions of a scientist who has made a major impact on the field of synthetic biology early in his or her career. The journal noted Lucks’ work with RNA and how it can be used as a tool to regulate cellular processes across the genome.
“It is an incredible honor to be recognized with the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award,” Lucks said in the journal’s online announcement of the award. “The field of synthetic biology is at an extremely exciting moment in its history, as can be seen clearly through all of the great work being published in ACS Synthetic Biology. For my group and I to be recognized with this prestigious award by the American Chemical Society is an inspiration. It has made us even more excited to unlock the potential of RNA, and to keep building the synthetic biology community.”
Lucks will be presented with the award at the Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design Conference, July 18-21, in Chicago.
Award announcement: http://connect.acspubs.org/synthbioyounginvestigator
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