Biotechnology - Organic Chemistry - Nanoscience
Covalent Chemistry Control of Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology
Mesoscale Molecular Engineering
Welcome to the Lukeman Lab
News
May 2012: Welcome to our 5 new lab members: John, Keshia, Matt, Mike and Morcos!
Jan 2012: Lab is up and running! Our new trainees are getting stuck in.
Jun 2011: Lukeman accepts the position of Associate
Professor of Chemistry at St
Johns University , in Queens, NY.
LukemanLab moves in August and begins work in September 2011.
May 2011: LukemanLab wins a $360k, 3 year ARO Standard grant
Feb 2011: Our first paper, authored solely by Lukeman & Cal
Poly Pomona undergrads, entitled
"Positional photocleavage control of DNA-based nanoswitches"
is published in Chemical
Communications
Congratulations Allen, Nancy & Paul!.
Dec 2010: If you're here from Mindshare, welcome! There
are some
links
to other labs that do DNA nano in the "Links section"
A nice intro
to what's coming up in DNA origami is here.
If you liked the spiel that I gave and want to contact me for other
art-tech-sci interactions/consulting/speaking opportunities
my email is phil.lukeman
gmail.com (the graphic @ is to foil the dreaded spammers).
Jun 2010: Welcome to our 2 new undergrad lab members: Terry Huang and Paul Chung
May 2010: Allen wins best undergraduate chemistry researcher at the Cal Poly Chemistry Goldstein Student awards. Congrats!
April 2010: Allen presents at Cal Poly Chemistry Goldstein Student awards and at FNANO2010.
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.
Positions available
The LukemanLab is open to applicants from eager St. John's
undergraduate and masters students.
We also accept dedicated high school students from the local area.
Aug 2011: 1-2 Spaces May be opening SOON for Summer 2012.
We have funding for Summer 2012 and beyond.
Contact Lukeman to be put on a waiting list.