Barrick Lab :: News Archive
August 2014: Graduate student Michael Hammerling is awarded a UT Graduate School Named Continuing Fellowship.
April 2014: Graduate student Gabriel "Gabo" Suarez passes his Part A Exam.
February 2014: Our work evolving bacteriophage T7 on a host with an expanded genetic code is published in
Nature Chemical Biology.
July 2013: Graduate student Mike Hammerling's work featured in
BEACON blog post.
June 2013: Postdoc Dr. Dan Deatherage's work featured in IDT's
DECODED newsletter.
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June 2013: Postdoc Dr. Colin Brown joins the lab.
May 2013: Graduate students Michael Hammerling and Brian Renda pass their Part B Exams and are admitted to candidacy.
April 2013: Graduate student Gabriel Suarez and postdoc Dr. Dennis Mishler join the lab.
January 2013: Dr. Barrick appears in the
Introduction to BEACON video which explains the goals of this multi-institution NSF center to study evolution in action.
December 2012: The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (
CPRIT) funds research in the Barrick lab to study "Deep sequencing oncoviral evolvomes as a personalized cancer diagnostic tool".
November 2012: UT Austin iGEM team wins Best Measurement award at regional competition and advances to the world championship for their project involving addicting E. coli to caffeine. They make a case for updating assembly standards for Gibson assembly amid some controversy about their refactored decaffeination operon not being accepted as a BioBrick. |
October 2012: A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Barrick lab for projects that combine deep sequencing with synthetic biology and experimental evolution or in vitro selection. View Job Posting (121003010712) Update: This position has been filled. |
September 2012: Our work on the genomics underlying the evolution of a rare metabolic innovation (aerobic citrate utilization) in the Lenski long-term E. coli evolution experiment is published in Nature. Article | News and Views | Carl Zimmer Blog
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September 2012: Graduate student Lindsey Wolf passes Part B Exam and is admitted to candidacy.
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August 2012: Alvaro Rodriguez has been awarded a graduate scholarship from CONACYT to study thermal cycling and deep sequencing of deoxyribozyme in vitro selection experiments.
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May 2012: Graduate students Neil Gottel, Vinicio Reynoso, and Alvaro Rodriguez join the lab.
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April 2012: Welch Foundation funds 3-year research project: "Discovering functional nucleic acid families by deep sequencing and fold sampling"
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News: The Barrick lab is involved in two projects funded by the NSF BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. Genomic mechanisms underlying increased virulence in Campylobacter jejuni with Titus Brown and Linda Mansfield at Michigan State University and Contemporary evolution of cyanobacteria and viruses: implications for marine nutrient recycling with Jay Lennon and Chris Klausmeier at the MSU Kellogg Biological Station. |
News: The Barrick Lab has completed its move to The University of Texas at Austin. Visit us in MBB 1.436. «Full Contact Information»
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Presentation: "Re-sequencing hundreds of E. coli genomes: finding non-SNP mutations, analyzing mixed populations, and knowing what you don't know" given at MSU for the GEDD next-gen sequencing seminar series on 2010-03-19.
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News: Two undergraduates I mentor win first-place prizes at the 2010 MSU UURAF for their posters! Congratulations to James Dittmar for Mutator Alleles May Still Fix Late in Evolution and Mark Kauth for Evolution of E. coli in Changing Environments.
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