Yearly Archives: 2015

Ellington on the Industrialization of Biology

Posted on October 16, 2015

From an article published in ACS Synthetic Biology: CSSB’s Andrew Ellington and co-author Douglas C. Friedman discuss the rise of bio-tech and its economic implications. Read the full Article here.

CSSB’s Ellington part of $4M UT-Austin BRAIN initiative grant

Posted on October 2, 2015

By Marc Airhart Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin will receive three grants totaling $4 million to develop techniques for imaging and manipulating the activity of neurons in the brain, research that will help scientists explore the mechanisms …

CSSB researcher scores $100,000 UT BRAIN seed grant

Posted on September 3, 2015

AUSTIN – Forty-five new research teams from across the University of Texas System have been awarded $100,000 seed grants each as part of a UT System initiative to jump-start multi-disciplinary and innovative research on the human brain.

CSSB supports only high school iGEM team in Texas

Posted on August 3, 2015

Local students from the Liberal Arts and Science Academy in Austin, Texas, one of only 11 high school teams in North America, have been spending the summer in UT’s Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology’s Ellington Lab developing a bacteria …

Graduate Student Selected for International Research Fellowship

Posted on August 3, 2015

By Steven E. Franklin Biochemistry graduate student Yoori Kim is one of two students from The University of Texas at Austin selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to receive a prestigious international research fellowship.

The development and characterization of synthetic minimal yeast promoters

Posted on July 20, 2015

Published in the Journal Nature Communications By Heidi Redden & Hal S. Alper