Biotechnology - Organic Chemistry - Nanoscience
Covalent chemistry control of nucleic acid nanotechnology
Welcome to the Lukeman Lab
News
Jun 2009: Welcome to our 4 new undergrad lab members: Nancy Kedzierski, Adam Loukeh, Allen Mok and Lisa Mousselli.
Allen gets a good start by winning a CCRAA Research Apprenticeship award!
May 2009: Lukeman wins a $42k Cottrell College Science Award
April 2009: Vik goes on a presentation rampage. Finallist presenter at the Cal Poly Chemistry Goldstein Student awards.
Presents a poster
at FNANO 2009. Represents Cal Poly at the inter-CSU Student Research competition.
February 2009: Lukeman awarded a $15k CSUPERB Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Seed Grant
January 2009: Congratulations to Lit Ming and Vik for winning CCRAA Research Apprenticeship Awards!
November 2008: Our undergraduate student Vik Presents his work at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR)
Seminar title "Controlling the function of a DNA actuator"
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 funding 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.
March 2009: The lab is currently full. Contact Lukeman to be put on a waiting list.