SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics: Our lab focuses on gas vesicles, which are a class of gas-filled protein nanostructures with properties such as buoyancy, structural stability, and pressure sensitivity. A potential project would explore the genetic engineering of gas vesicle proteins for applications in biomanufacturing and synthetic biology.

Potential skills gained:

• Wet lab skills: bacterial cell culture, gel electrophoresis, PCR, molecular cloning, heterologous protein expression and purification;
• Additional skills: experimental design, data analysis, literature review

Required qualifications: STEM major with biology background (biology, biochemistry, bioengineering, etc.) is preferred.

Direct mentor: Graduate Student