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Tape of Life

Play audio above to hear a remix of Eric's interview at Atlanta Botanical Garden's Science Cafe (Courtesy of James and Songify).

2016

April 2016, Congrats to Lily Tran for receiving the Cherry L. Emerson Research Award. Lily receives $$ and her name will be displayed on a plaque in the Biology office.
Mar 2016, The group receives $1.7M from a NIH R01 grant.
Jan 2016, Prof. Gaucher receives the Nelson and Bennie Abell Professorship @GT

Oct 2015, Ryan presents at Atlanta Botanical Garden's Science Cafe. Click here to see audience artwork.
Aug 2015, The group welcomes new Ph.D. student (and GT Presidential Fellow) Jenni Farrar.
Jun 2015, The group has moved into the new $120M Engineered Biosystems Building.
Jan 2015, Undergraduate Divya Natarajan receives an 'Astronaut Scholarship'.

May 2014, Our Georgia Tech Starter Project Light-Bright has been launched.
April 2014, Prof. Gaucher and Ryan Randall receive CETL award from GT for Education Partnership with Dunwoody High School.
April 2014, Congrats to undergrad Jennifer Zhang for receiving 2nd place in UROP science/engineering competition.
March 2014, Our recent work with resurrected uricase enzymes is published in PNAS. A wonderful commentary by Prof. Belinda Chang accompanied our article, as well as a great coverage in National Geographic.

Professor Gaucher is awarded the DuPont Young Professor Fellowship.
Gaucher Lab member featured in Explore: Life on Mars? A teaching module to engage girls and underserved audiences in the science of life in the universe.
The BBC highlighted our recent collaborative work that elucidated the structures of ancient thioredoxin enzymes.
Eric is interviewed by Boing Boing and asked to discuss his views on the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding DNA patentability.
Listen to Eric and Ryan as they are interviewed for Science Cafe in conjunction with the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
Gaucher Lab member featured in Explore: Life on Mars? A teaching module to engage girls and underserved audiences in the science of life in the universe.
Postdoc Bétül Kaçar was awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Astrobiology with her proposal titled, The Role of Chance and Necessity in Evolution: An Experimental Model to Discover Life's Solutions.
Bétül Kaçar interviews with the BBC Focus Magazine on our attempts to replay the tape of life in the laboratory.
Haldane's Sieve highlights our research in a recent article combining experimental evolution with ancestral sequence reconstruction.
Bétül and Eric talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Population Biology, chaired by Paul Turner and Mike Travisano.

Ziming's recent article has been designated with the 'highly accessed' honor by the publisher.
Bétül attends Gordon Reserach Conference on 'Microbial Polulations Biology' in Andover, NH.
Click here to read how our research helps to understand primoridal weather.

Postdoc Bétül Kaçar is selected to present her work at AbGradCon.
Graduate student Ziming Zhao presents at the Paleobiology During the Genomics Era workshop
Professor Gaucher and Ziming are featured in a GT Press Release.
Professor Gaucher and postdoc Bétül present at the NAI Workshop without walls.
Postdoc Betül Kacar shares her research with visitors to the Smithsonian Institute throughThe Scientist is In program.

Professor Gaucher and postdoc B&eactue;tül Kaçar present at the NAI Workshop without walls.
Ziming Zhao presents her research, Application of Bioinformatics in Evolutionary Studies:
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology, Beijing
- Xian-Sun Zhang's Group, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Postdoc Megan Cole was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA). This is the first postdoctoral NRSA ever awarded to a postdoc in the School of Biology at Georgia Tech.
Josh Stern is awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship to study the evolution of bacterial translation.
Professor Gaucher is quoted in Popular Mechanics about the Venter Institute's synthetic biology breakthrough
Postdoc Bétül Kaçar receives a travel award from NASA Astrobiology Institute and is selected to speak at the AbSciCon 2010.
We have published our latest work in evolutionary synthetic biology that describes a combination of molecular evolutionary models and protein engineering to develop novel DNA polymerases (Article and SI). The analyses exploited our REAP approach towards directed evolution. We anticipate that these engineered polymerases will be useful for next-generation DNA sequencing (sequencing-by-synthesis) and detecting single-nucleotide-polymorphisms.
Megan Cole and Josh Stern attend the Gordon Research Conference on the 'Orgins of Life' in Galveston, TX.

The Gaucher Group is featured at "Number 5" in Astrobiology Magazine's countdown of the top 10 astrobiology stories of 2009
Prof. Gaucher is invited to present the group's research for the American Society of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists
Prof. Gaucher is invited to attend the NAKFI conference on Synthetic Biology
Postdoc Megan Cole receives a travel award and is selected to speak at the Gordon Research Conference on the 'Origins of Life'
Prof. Gaucher and his postdoc Betül Kacar are featured in a press article
Ph.D. Student James Kratzer is awarded the TI:GER fellowship from Georgia Tech

Profs Gaucher and Hud present a talk about the origins and evolution of life to the general public in Atlanta
Prof. Gaucher awarded the NASA Carl Sagan Fellowship for Early Career Researchers