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%ICON{award}% *August 2014:* Graduate student Michael Hammerling is awarded a UT Graduate School Named Continuing Fellowship.
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%ICON{changes}% *April 2014:* Graduate student Gabriel "Gabo" Suarez passes his Part A Exam.
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%ICON{choice-yes}% *February 2014:* Our work evolving bacteriophage T7 on a host with an expanded genetic code is published in <a href="http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchembio.1450.html"><i>Nature Chemical Biology</i></a>. 
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/beacon_icon.png"> *July 2013:* Graduate student Mike Hammerling's work featured in  [[http://beacon-center.org/blog/2013/07/22/beacon-researchers-at-work-expanding-the-genetic-code/][BEACON blog post]].
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/oww_icon.png"> *June 2013:* Postdoc Dr. Dan Deatherage's work featured in IDT's _DECODED_ newsletter. [[https://www.idtdna.com/pages/decoded/decoded-articles/your-research/decoded/2013/06/28/target-enrichment-identifies-mutations-that-confer-fitness-effects][Article Link]]
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%ICON{persons}% *June 2013:* Postdoc Dr. Colin Brown joins the lab.
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%ICON{changes}% *May 2013:* Graduate students Michael Hammerling and Brian Renda pass their Part B Exams and are admitted to candidacy.
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%ICON{persons}% *April 2013:* Graduate student Gabriel Suarez and postdoc Dr. Dennis Mishler join the lab.
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/coffee_icon.png"> *March 2013:* Paper describing "addicted" _E. coli_ that can be used for decaffeination and measuring the caffeine content of beverages published in <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/sb4000146"><i>ACS Synthetic Biology</i></a>. [[http://voicerussia.com/radio_broadcast/72430379/111907796.html][Radio Interview]] | [[http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2013/04/01/caffeine_addiction_bacteria_study_shows_chemical_dependence_possible_in.html][Slate Video]] | [[http://quo.mx/2013/04/01/pragmatas/para-que-hacer-a-bacteria-adicta-al-cafe][En Español]]
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/beacon_icon.png"> *January 2013:* Dr. Barrick appears in the [[http://beacon-center.org/blog/2013/01/08/beacon-introductory-video/][Introduction to BEACON video]] which explains the goals of this multi-institution NSF center to study evolution in action.
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/CPRIT_icon.png"> *December 2012:*  The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas ([[http://www.cprit.state.tx.us/][CPRIT]]) funds research in the Barrick lab to study "Deep sequencing oncoviral evolvomes as a personalized cancer diagnostic tool".
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/iGEM.png"> *November 2012:* UT Austin iGEM team wins *Best Measurement* award at regional competition and advances to the world championship for their project involving [[http://2012.igem.org/Team:Austin_Texas/Caffeinated_coli][addicting <i>E. coli</i> to caffeine]]. They make a case for updating assembly standards for Gibson assembly amid [[http://ellingtonlab.org/blog/2012/11/09/on-apologetics/][some controversy]] about their refactored decaffeination operon not being accepted as a [[http://partsregistry.org/Help:An_Introduction_to_BioBricks][BioBrick]].</td></tr></table>
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%ICON{puzzle}% *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. [[https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/hr/jobs/nlogon/121003010712][View Job Posting (121003010712)]] *Update: This position has been filled.* </td></tr></table>
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%ICON{choice-yes}% *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_. [[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11514.html][Article]] | [[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11487.html][News and Views]] | [[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/09/19/the-birth-of-the-new-the-rewiring-of-the-old/][Carl Zimmer Blog]]
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%ICON{changes}% *September 2012:* Graduate student Lindsey Wolf passes Part B Exam and is admitted to candidacy.
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/oww_icon.png"> *August 2012:* [[https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/bioiteam/SSC+Intro+to+NGS+Bioinformatics+Course][Intro to Next-Gen Sequencing Bioinformatics Course]] encore performance. [[https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/bioiteam/SSC+Intro+to+NGS+Bioinformatics+Course][Visit the class Wiki for tutorials and information.]]
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/CONACYT_icon.png"> *August 2012:* Alvaro Rodriguez has been awarded a graduate scholarship from [[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conacyt.gob.mx%2FBecas%2FAspirantes%2FPaginas%2FResultados_Becas_CONACYT-Extranjero_2012-2do.aspx][CONACYT]] to study thermal cycling and deep sequencing of deoxyribozyme in vitro selection experiments. 
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/alife13.png"> *July 2012:* Work by programmer Aaron Reba and Ph.D student Austin Meyer receives best paper award in the [[http://alife13.org/][ALife 13]] Synthetic Biology track: [[http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/Alife13/ch062.asp]["Computational tests of a thermal cycling strategy to isolate more complex functional nucleic acid motifs from random sequence pools by in vitro selection"]] 
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/oww_icon.png"> *May 2012:* Dr. Barrick and Dr. Hunicke-Smith with Geoff Colburn, Aaron Reba, Vinicio Reynoso, Anna Battenhouse, and Daechan Park teach [[https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/bioiteam/SSC+Intro+to+NGS+Bioinformatics+Course][Intro to Next-Gen Sequencing Bioinformatics Course]] as part of the [[http://ssc.utexas.edu/programs/summer-statistics-institute/courses][Summer Statistics Institute]]. [[https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/bioiteam/SSC+Intro+to+NGS+Bioinformatics+Course][Visit the class Wiki for tutorials and information.]]
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%ICON{changes}% *May 2012:* Graduate students Neil Gottel, Vinicio Reynoso, and Alvaro Rodriguez join the lab.
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/welch_foundation.png"> *April 2012:* [[http://www.welch1.org/][Welch Foundation]] funds 3-year research project: "Discovering functional nucleic acid families by deep sequencing and fold sampling"
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/microbe_magazine.png"> *March 2012:* Article by graduate student Lindsey Wolf in _Microbe Magazine_: [[http://www.microbemagazine.org/index.php/02-2012-home/4544-tracking-winners-and-losers-in-e-coli-evolution-experiments]["Tracking Winners and Losers in _E. coli_ Evolution Experiments"]] 
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/oww_icon.png"> *January 2012:* Read [[http://openwetware.org/wiki/CH391L/S12#Topics][summaries of Synthetic Biology topics]] written by students in Dr. Barrick's course (<nop>CH391L).
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<img src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/WebLeftBar/beacon_icon.png"> Read about our research in an article on the BEACON blog. [[http://beacon-center.org/blog/2011/09/12/beacon-researchers-at-work-lessons-in-bacterial-evolvability-from-eventual-winners/][Lessons in bacterial evolvability from eventual winners]] 
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News: The Barrick lab is involved in two projects funded by the [[http://beacon-center.org/][NSF BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action]]. <b>Genomic mechanisms underlying increased virulence in <i>Campylobacter jejuni</i></b> with Titus Brown and Linda Mansfield at Michigan State University and <b>Contemporary evolution of cyanobacteria and viruses: implications for marine nutrient recycling</b> with Jay Lennon and Chris Klausmeier at the MSU Kellogg Biological Station. </td></tr></table>
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News: The Barrick Lab has completed its move to The University of Texas at Austin. Visit us in MBB 1.436. [[%WIKIHOMEURL%/%WEB%/ContactInformation][&laquo;Full Contact Information&raquo;]]
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Presentation: <b>"Re-sequencing hundreds of <i>E. coli</i> genomes: finding non-SNP mutations, analyzing mixed populations, and knowing what you don't know"</b> given at MSU for the [[http://www.bch.msu.edu/GEDD/][GEDD]] next-gen sequencing seminar series on 2010-03-19. [[%PUBURL%/%WEB%/PresentationList/2010-03-17_MSU_GEDD_Next_Gen.pdf][%ICON{pdf}%]] 
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News: Two undergraduates I mentor win first-place prizes at the 2010 [[http://urca.msu.edu/news/archive/2010/04/21/uuraf-award-winners][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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News: I have accepted an assistant professor position in the [[http://www.cm.utexas.edu/][Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry]] at [[http://www.utexas.edu/][The University of Texas at Austin]] and will be starting my lab there in January 2011. [[http://www.cm.utexas.edu/News-and-Events/Announcements/Latest-News/1007671][&laquo;Official Announcement&raquo;]] <img style="border-color: black; margin: 3px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px;" height=12 width=24 src="%PUBURL%/%WEB%/FrontPageImages/longhorn_logo.png">
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