Biotechnology - Organic Chemistry - Nanoscience

Covalent chemistry control of nucleic acid nanotechnology

Welcome to the Lukeman Lab

News

October 2008: Our undergraduate student Vik Presents his work at the Cal Poly Summer Research Symposium
Seminar title "Controlling the function of a DNA actuator"

June 2008 : Paper accepted to Biophysical Journal
"Metallic Nanoparticles Used to Estimate the Structural Integrity of DNA Motifs"
Zheng J, Lukeman PS, Sherman WB, Micheel C, Alivasatos AP, Constantinou PE, Seeman NC.

April 2008 : Undergraduate and High School student co-authored poster presented at FNANO 2008, Snowbird, UT
"Training Tyros with Tiny Tinkertoys", Lukeman PS et al.

March 2008: Lukeman awarded the Cal Poly Pomona Provost’s Teacher-Scholar award.
This award provides partial summer stipends for two consecutive summers to support faculty development as a strong teacher-scholar.

February 2008 : Paper accepted to ChemBioChem
"Thermodynamic Analysis of Nylon Nucleic Acids" Ding L, Liu Y, Sha R, Lukeman PS, Canary JW, Seeman NC.

January 2008: Undergraduate co-author paper accepted to Crystal Growth and Design
"Morphology Change of Calcium Carbonate in the Presence of Polynucleotides" Lukeman PS, Stevenson M, Seeman NC.

LukemanLab joins the Center for Molecular Cybernetics : a NSF chemical bonding center.

Positions available

The LukemanLab is open to applicants from eager Cal Poly Pomona undergraduate and masters students.
We also accept dedicated high school students from the local area.

Currently, no positions are available. Please check back again, or contact Lukeman if you want to be placed on a waiting list.