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 …
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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!
Megan gives the Grainger Early Career Seminar at UW
Megan gave the Grainger Early Career Seminar in the College of Engineering at UW.
Seminar at U of T!
Megan gave a seminar at the University of Toronto in the Donnelly Centre entitled “Single-cell measurement and control to unravel yeast signaling networks”.
UW-Madison Graduate Programs Ranked Highly!
Graduate programs that the McClean Lab recruits from did well in the U.S. News rankings (MDTP #1, Biology #18, BME #21) !
Kieran Sweeney’s GSTP renewed
Kieran Sweeney’s predoctoral traineeship from the Genomic Sciences Training Program was renewed! Congratulations Kieran!
Our paper is out in PLoS Biology!
Our collaborative paper entitled “Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals intrinsic and extrinsic regulatory heterogeneity in yeast responding to stress” is out in PLoS Biology. Congrats all!
Lab Tour for the Opportunities in Engineering Conference (OPPS)
Neydis Moreno gave an excellent lab tour for the Opportunities in Engineering Conference (OPPS) participants this afternoon. And a nice overview of research in the lab to boot! Megan took some terrible pictures because (1) …
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.
Neydis’ News & Views is out!
Neydis wrote a very nice News&Views which is now online at Nature Biotechnology
11th Annual Q-Bio Conference
Megan gave a talk at the 11th Annual q-bio conference at Rutgers!
Cameron’s research featured!
Cameron’s research was featured in the UW Madison College of Engineering news! Congratulations Cameron!
McClean Lab receives an American Cancer Society IRG Pilot Grant
Stephanie’s project “Mechanisms of dispersion from fungal biofilms received an American Cancer Society IRG pilot grant!
Collaborative NSF grant funded!
We are thrilled to collaborate with the Gasch Laboratory on their recently funded NSF proposal “Elucidating Dynamics and Heterogeneity in the Yeast Stress Response”. Congratulations!
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!
Taylor Scott receives GSTP predoctoral traineeship!
Taylor Scott has been selected to receive a Genomic Sciences Training Program predoctoral traineeship. The award will include stipend and tuition support through NIH grant 5T32HG002760. Congratulations Taylor!