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CSB 2023 Retreat

Posted
October 5, 2023

The Computational and Systems Biology Ph.D. Program will hold our annual retreat at the Colony Hotel in picturesque Kennebunkport, ME. Sunday, October 8th - Monday, October 9th 2023. Our retreat will feature a poster session, lobster buffet, and talks from CSB students, MIT Faculty, and invited industry speakers.

Our Career Panel is Monday from 10:45 am - 11:45 am and will feature: Dr. Kathy Lin( Dyno Therapeutics), Dr. Alex Drong (Rome Therapeutics), Dr. Amy Moody (Pfizer), Prof. Olivia Corradin (MIT Biology), and Prof. Connor Coley (MIT Chemical Engineering).

We are pleased to announce our lineup of speakers:

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A more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state

Posted
October 2, 2023

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By focusing on causal relationships in genome regulation, a new AI method could help scientists identify new immunotherapy techniques or regenerative therapies. 

A strategy for cellular reprogramming involves using targeted genetic interventions to engineer a cell into a...

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CSB Thesis Defense

Posted
August 14, 2023

Ph.D. Candidate:   Matty Allan

Lab: Prof. Mark Bathe

Date and Time: Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 11 AM

Format: Hybrid 

Location: 56-154

Title:  Investigating and Reprogramming RNA Folding with Molecular Probes

Abstract: 

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) performs versatile, essential functions in all known organisms and viruses. These functions require the RNA to fold into specific secondary and tertiary structures, and in many cases to switch among multiple structural states. Predicting and experimentally determining RNA structures remains challenging, particularly because of this propensity of one RNA sequence to form a heterogeneous ensemble of structures.

 

This thesis investigates two related problems in RNA folding. First, a method of nucleic acid origami is developed in which four divergent...

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Arrays of quantum rods could enhance TVs or virtual reality devices

Posted
August 14, 2023

 

MIT engineers developed a new way to create these arrays, by scaffolding quantum rods onto patterned DNA.

Flat screen TVs that incorporate quantum dots are now commercially available, but it has been more difficult to create arrays of their elongated cousins, quantum rods, for commercial devices. Quantum rods can control both the polarization and color of light, to generate 3D images for virtual reality devices.

Using scaffolds made of folded DNA, MIT engineers have...

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