EPIC Trainee Pizza Talks

EPIC Trainee Pizza Talks

Hosted by EPIC Trainee Advisory Committee (EPIC TAC) and held on the first Thursday of every month, the Trainee Pizza Talks are a safe and supportive trainee-only space for trainees to present and discuss their research with other students, postdocs, and RAs from...
Harnessing synthetic biology to create low-cost diagnostics and improve infectious disease surveillance

Harnessing synthetic biology to create low-cost diagnostics and improve infectious disease surveillance

EPIC Doctoral Award recipient Justin Vigar is using synthetic biology to develop rapid, low-cost diagnostic tools to combat infectious diseases. He and his lab mates are creating a customizable, paper-based platform that uses pocket-sized slips of paper with genetic circuits embedded onto them. The circuitry is built by freeze drying proteins and other molecular components, which function as amplifiers and sensors, directly onto the paper.