Dynamic Nucleic Acid Systems lab

• Summer 2016
  • The Franco lab receives funding from DARPA to pursue research on RNA feedback controllers.
  • Elisa Franco gives an invite talk at the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Oscillations and Dynamic Instabilities.
• Spring 2016 - The Franco lab received support from the Department of Energy to continue our work on dynamic self assembly.
• Winter 2016 - Elisa Franco is an appointed member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors for 2016.
• Spring/Summer 2015
  • Jaimie Stewart is selected for an oral presentation at the MRS spring meeting.
  • Elisa Franco gives invited talks at FNANO 2015 and SEED 2015.
• Winter 2015 - Elisa Franco receives the NSF CAREER award (BMAT).
• Fall 2014
  • Our UCR Biomod Team, "Breaking RNA", wins Gold Medal at the 2014 BIOMOD competition.
  • Elisa Franco is part of the organizing committee of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Los Angeles.
• Spring 2014 -
  • Our collaborative project with TUM on dynamical oscillators in droplets appears in Nature Chemistry.
  • Undergraduate Claire Tran receives a best poster award at the ABRCASM conference.
• Fall 2013
  • Elisa Franco receives funding from the Department of Energy.
  • Undergraduate Claire Tran wins first place at the Notre Dame NDConnect national competition.
• Spring 2013
  • Elisa Franco receives funding from NSF CMMI
  • Elisa Franco receives a Hellman Fellowship.
  • Leopold Green is awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship.
• Summer 2012 - Our wet lab is ready!
• Fall 2011 - Elisa Franco is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UC Riverside.