Kendall Kearns joins our lab. Though Kendall is only a freshman, she gained much experience in synthetic biology in high school as a member of UCSF’s iGEM team. Welcome!

Xiang Li joins our group. Xiang comes to us from UC Santa Cruz, where he majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and studied nanopore-based sensors in Nader Pourmand‘s group. Welcome!

Adrian Arrieta and Justin Hitomi join our team. Adrian, who is a Junior Specialist in our lab, comes to us from UC Berkeley, where he recently graduated with a degree in […]

Arjun Ravikumar is the first graduate student to join our team! Arjun moves to UCI from the UCSF/UCB BioE graduate program, where he worked with then Miller Fellow Chang Liu, […]

Our recent synthetic biology paper on the creation of versatile RNA transcriptional regulators was featured in the News and Views section of Nature Methods. Thanks to Jeff Tabor for the thoughtful commentary.

An image of the first DNA gel run in our new lab!

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We’ve moved in, and our lab is up and running! We are in Natural Sciences II, 3rd floor.