Neydis and Kevin presented three-minute thesis presentations at the UW-Madison Biophysics Colloquium. Neydis won best three-minute talk!
Lab Member News
Megan selected to be an individual member of EBRC!
Megan was nominated and accepted to be an individual member of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium!
Neydis named “Finalist” in Gilliam Graduate Fellowship program
Neydis’ application for the Gilliam Graduate Fellowship program was honored with a “Finalist” designation to recognize her strong application. Congratulations Neydis!
BIO 152 Poster Session
Jarret did a great job presenting his undergraduate research at the BIO152 poster session!
Megan gave a talk at the Fungal Biology Supergroup
Megan gave a talk at the Fungal Biology Supergroup, the most fun group on campus!
Laura will do summer research at CalTech!
Laura Guerrero recently found out she’ll be heading to CalTech this summer to do research in the Wang lab through the WAVE Fellows Program. Congratulations Laura!
30th Fungal Genetics Conference
The McClean Lab had a great showing at the 30th Fungal Genetics Conference! Stephanie Geller gave a great talk and a poster on her yeast optogenetic tools and Megan gave an invited talked entitled “Single-cell measurement and control …
Taylor and Kieran’s review article is out!
Taylor and Kieran’s review article, titled “Biological signal generators: integrating synthetic biology tools and in silico control” is available ahead of print in Current Opinion in Systems Biology. Congratulations Kieran and Taylor!
Stephanie receives a travel award!
Stephanie received a travel award from the Cellular and Molecular Biology program to give a talk at the 30th Fungal Genetics Conference (coming up in March, 2019). Congratulations Stephanie!
Neydis wins poster award!
Neydis won the “Best poster presentation for junior student” award at the Annual Biophysics Colloquium on September 28th, 2018. Congratulations Neydis!
Annual Genomic Science Training Program Retreat!
Megan gave a talk entitled “Single-cell Measurement and Control to Unravel Yeast Signaling Networks” and Kieran, Neydis, and Taylor presented posters!
Laura was accepted into the SynBREU at Northwestern!
Laura G. recently accepted an offer from the Synthetic Biology Research Experience for Undergraduates (SynBREU) at Northwestern for the Summer of 2018. This REU includes ten weeks of mentored, research-intensive activities in the field of …
Lab tours for LEEP!
McClean lab members giving lab tours for the Latinos Exploring Engineering Professions (LEEP) program put on by SHPE-UW. The whole lab pitched in!
Kieran Sweeney’s GSTP renewed
Kieran Sweeney’s predoctoral traineeship from the Genomic Sciences Training Program was renewed! Congratulations Kieran!
Megan was quoted in Chemical and Engineering News
More news on the great article from Lingchong You’s group in Nature Biotechnology. Megan is quoted! Find the news here.
Kieran receives a GSTP Fellowship
Kieran Sweeney received a predoctoral traineeship from the Genomic Sciences Training Program. Congratulations Kieran!
Neydis and Megan give talks at the 5th Midwest Q-Bio Symposium
Megan gave an invited talk titled “Elucidating principles of biological signal processing using microfluidic and optogenetic tools” and Neydis gave a lightning talk at the 5th Midwest Q-Bio Symposium. It was a great meeting!
Taylor receives NSF GRFP
Taylor Scott received a highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations Taylor!
Congratulations Cameron!
Cameron’s article “Design and Implementation of an Automated Illuminating, Culturing, and Sampling System for Microbial Optogenetic Applications” is published in JOVE. Congratulations Cameron!
McClean Lab Holiday Party
Happy holidays from the McClean Lab!
Veronica and Cameron present their work at the Midwest Q-Bio Meeting at Purdue
Veronica and Cameron both received travel awards to attend and present lightning talks at the Midwest Q-Bio meeting at Purdue. It was a great meeting!
Veronica joins the lab!
Veronica, a graduate student visiting from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, joins the lab. Welcome Veronica!
Kieran receives a GSTP Summer Training Fellowship
Kieran received summer funding support from the Genomic Sciences Training Program. Congratulations Kieran!