Monthly Archives: July 2013

His research focuses on using evolutionary techniques to engineer biopolymers and cells. Researchers in the Ellington lab select binding species (aptamers) and ribozymes from random sequence populations in order to apply the selected species to solve real-world problems. For example, …

Barrick is broadly interested in understanding evolution as a creative force. His lab uses experiments with populations of bacteria, biomolecules, and digital organisms to study the fundamental constraints and opportunities common to evolving systems. They formulate and test new biological …

The Marcotte group studies the large-scale organization of proteins, essentially trying to reconstruct the ‘wiring diagrams’ of cells by learning how all of the proteins encoded by a genome are associated into functional pathways, systems, and networks. Such models let …