News
June 11, 2013 - Dave's paper is highlighted by the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
June 4, 2013 - Dave's paper on genome editing to correct Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is published in Molecular Therapy. Read Pratt's story on the work here.
June 3, 2013 - We welcome Nishkala, Mishelle, and Josh into the lab as summer undergraduate research fellows through Duke's Howard Hughes, Pratt REU, and IGSP summer fellows programs.
May 29, 2013 - Pratiksha and Lauren are awarded predoctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association. Congrats!
May 16, 2013 - Dave, Pabo, Lauren, Pratiksha, and Ami present their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
May 8, 2013 - Dr. Gersbach co-authors a review article in Trends in Biotechnology on genome engineering technologies.
May 5, 2013 - Congrats to Matt and Sarek for earning the Bachelor's degrees in Biomedical Engineering!
April 20, 2013 - Dr. Gersbach recieves the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research from the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.
April 18, 2013 - Pablo receives the Postdoctoral Achievement Award from Duke's Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering.
April 18, 2013 - Lauren wins a poster award at the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering's Annual Kewaunee Lecture.
April 2, 2013 - Tyler's image is featured on the cover of Biotechnology Journal!
March 31, 2013 - Lauren's work is highlighted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
March 26, 2013 - Ami and Dave receive travel awards to present their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy. Congrats!
March 21, 2013 - Tyler's review article on single cell analyses and lineage commitment is published online in Biotechnology Journal.
March 18, 2013 - Lauren, Dave, and Pablo present their work at the Keystone Symposia on Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology.
February 28, 2013 - Pablo's paper is highlighted in the Nature Methods News and Views.
February 15, 2013 - ACS Synthetic Biology summarizes the 4th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering.
February 5, 2013 - Pablo's paper is highlighted by Duke University and Science Daily.
February 3, 2013 - Pablo's paper on activating human genes for applications in synthetic biology is published in Nature Methods.
February 1, 2013 - Dr. Gersbach co-authors a letter to the editor in Molecular Therapy calling for an International Gene Therapy Consortium.
January 14, 2013 - Ami, Lauren, and Charlie present at the International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering.
January 11, 2012 - Lauren recieves a Keystone Symposia Scholarship to present at the meeting on Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology. Congrats Lauren!
December 11, 2012 - Ami and Lauren recieve travel awards to present their work at the International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering. Congrats!
December 5, 2012 -Dave's collaborative work with the Segal Lab on nuclease engineering is published in Genome Research.
December 4, 2012 -Congratulations to Ami on receiving her MS degree!
November 28, 2012 -Congratulations to Cameron Kim on being named a Pratt Research Fellow!
October 25, 2012 -Lauren, Tyler, Dave, Pratiksha, Ami, Cameron, and Matt all present their work at the Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
October 8, 2012 -Cameron Kim is profiled by the Duke Research Blog.
October 3, 2012 -Lauren's paper on light-inducible gene activation is highlighted by the Pratt School of Engineering and Genetic Engineering News.
September 10, 2012 -Lauren's work on light-inducible gene activation is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
September 10, 2012 -Pratiksha, Lauren, Ami, Dave, and Tyler present their work at the 14th Annual Conference of the North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society.
September 4, 2012 -Dr. Gersbach presents at the FASEB Summer Research Conference on Genome Engineering.
September 1, 2012 -The Gersbach lab is highlighted in Duke's GenomeLIFE.
August 19, 2012 -Our review article on genome editing technologies is published in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. Read an F1000 recommendation of this article here.
August 13th, 2012 - Congratulations to Lauren Polstein for being appointed a Predoctoral Fellow in the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering's NIH Training Program.
July 27, 2012 -Congratulations to Ami Kabadi for receiving a 2012 Design and Research Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
June 21, 2012 -Dr. Gersbach presents at the Summer Bioengineering Conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
June 1, 2012 -Congrats to Dave Ousterout for being awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association.
May 17, 2012 -Dave, Lauren, Pablo, Pratiksha, and Jonathan present their work at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.
May 7, 2012 -Congratulations to Lauren Polstein for being awarded the Best Presentation by a Junior Graduate Student at the Duke Biomedical Engineering Annual Retreat.
May 4, 2012 -Congratulations to Ankit Rajgariah and David Yudovich for graduating with their Bachelor's degrees, and to Lauren Barth, Tyler Gibson, and David Ousterout for earning their Master of Science degrees.
May 1, 2012 -Tyler Gibson and Dr. Gersbach present at the 3rd International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering.
April 19, 2012 -Congratulations to Lauren Polstein for winning a poster award at the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering's Annual Kewaunee Lecture.
April 1, 2012 -The Gersbach Lab is awarded a Faculy Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.
March 28, 2012 -Dave Ousterout is awarded a student travel award to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy. Congrats Dave!
March 15th, 2012 - Dr. Steve Bischoff joins the Gersbach Lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
January 11th, 2012 -Matt Brown and Sarek Shen are awarded Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Research Fellowships to work in the Gersbach Lab.
January 7th, 2012 -Dr. Gersbach presents in the "Rising Stars" session at the 2nd BMES-SPRBM Conference on Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.
December 14th, 2011 - Our work on gene targeting with synthetic enzymes is published in Nucleic Acids Research.
October 14th, 2011 - Tyler, Dave, and Ami present their work at the Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society in Hartford, CT.
September 20th, 2011 - The Gersbach Lab recieves an NIH Director's New Innovator Award to support our work on genetic reprogramming. Read more here.
September 14th, 2011 - Congratulations to Lauren Polstein for being awarded the McChesney Fellowship by the Department of Biomedical Engineering!
May 21, 2011 - Pablo presents his work at the 14th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy in Seattle, WA.
May 15, 2011 - Congrats to Brian for being awarded his Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering!
April 16, 2011 - Pablo, Dave, Tyler, and Charlie present at the 2011 Duke Synthetic Biology Symposium. Congrats to Pablo and Tyler for winning poster awards!
April 15, 2011 - The Gersbach Lab receives a seed grant from Duke's Center for Systems Biology to study the dynamics of cell differentiation and proliferation.
April 1, 2011 - The Gersbach Lab receives an R03 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study gene delivery and tissue engineering.
March 29, 2011 - Dr. Gersbach receives a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
February 1, 2011 - Dr. Gersbach receives a Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award from the March of Dimes.
January 21, 2011 - The Gersbach Lab welcomes Pratiksha Thakore as a rotation student for Spring semester.
January 12, 2011 - Congratulations to David Yudovich and Ankit Rajgariah who were accepted into the Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Research Fellows Program.
November 12, 2010 - Dr. Gersbach spoke at the 12th Annual Conference of the North Carolina Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society on our research progress in genome editing for gene therapies.
September 1, 2010 - The Gersbach Lab welcomes Lauren Polstein to our group as our newest graduate student.
August 20th, 2010 - Congratulations to Tyler Gibson for being appointed a Predoctoral Fellow in the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering's NIH Training Program.
August 12th, 2010 - Congratulations to Dave Ousterout for being awarded the Howard G. Clark III Fellowship by the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations to Tyler Gibson who was awarded Honorable Mention.
July 12th, 2010 - The Gersbach Lab welcomes Dr. Pablo Perez-Pinera to our group as a postdoctoral fellow
July 3rd, 2010 - Our work is featured on the cover of Nucleic Acids Research
June 10th, 2010 - Dr. Gersbach spoke at the FASEB Genome Engineering Conference on "Engineering Zinc Finger Recombinases for Targeted Genome Editing".
June 7th, 2010 - The Gersbach Lab welcomes undergraduates David, Justin, Brad, Matt, and Lauren for summer research projects
June 4th, 2010 - Dr. Gersbach receives a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association
April 1st,2010 - Dr. Gersbach is the recipient of a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
February 3rd, 2010 - Dr. Gersbach interviewed in the Duke Engineering News