Dec 24, 2020
When Huan Peng first cloned M13 chimeras by mix-and-match with other filamentous phages, in order to change the host targeted, we thought we’d probably need to do at least a little directed evolution to improve the folding or affinity of the new chimeras. That...
Dec 24, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Claire Tran on successfully defending her thesis! We will miss her hard-won expertise in protein and RNA biochemistry as well as her carefully crafted ‘joke’ slides. Dr. Tran is heading to Boston to join i2o Therapeutics.
Dec 23, 2020
A few years ago, Celia Blanco and Sam Verbanic began analyzing Illumina data from our collaborator Burckhard Seelig’s laboratory. Since our existing tools were written for ribozyme selections, Celia and Sam wrote some new scripts to pre-process the data. Others...