Douglas Lab

Our latest work, first preprint, and first student (Parsa) to graduate from the lab!

After years of reformatting Current & Pending Support docs, I ran out of patience and created GrantMerge. Hopefully you find it useful! https://douglaslab.github.io/grantmerge/

If you are interested in helping develop the next version of cadnano as a postdoc or paid contractor, please contact us! http://bionano.ucsf.edu/contact

Here's our perspective on this week's Science cover by Florian Praetorius and Hendrik Dietz: bit.ly/2nW2wbT

We will be appearing from inside our virtual UCSF lab in an upcoming science episode of the FOO VR show! Here is preview of our lab environment that we have been building for the past year. The show's kickstarter for season 1 ends on Friday! http://kck.st/2f4ydgR

Folding complex DNA nanostructures from limited sets of reusable sequences bit.ly/1SIyB0a

Started building a new lab notebook system bit.ly/lr-notebook

Q: I've been accepted to (Harvard/MIT) as well as (UCSF/Berkeley/Stanford). Where should I go? A: You really want to hear my version of the "trust your instincts" answer? Okay, here goes... Disclaimer: I've only been a grad student at Harvard in the Biophysics program, and I have only positive things to say about that experience. I've also met people who've trained at all of the above. Those people have been: happy, unhappy, successful, unsuccessful, a great fit, a poor fit.... So, how to decide? One idea to consider is that the global economy is being rewritten right now, and it’s all driven by software. So far, the impact has been limited relatively simple tasks like shopping, banking, and transportation. But new software will soon augment more complicated things like manufacturing, science, and agriculture. If Boston is center of the universe for academic training, center of the universe for software is the Bay Area. It's possible to write software anywhere, and few people will do it voluntarily under 9 feet of snow. Thus it's expensive to live in the Bay Area, which unfortunately makes it much more hostile to non-software people (i.e. students, artists, etc) In general it might be a safe bet to train first in Boston, and then move to the Bay Area if you wish to implement something that requires software. But if you want to get started connecting with the software communities right away, it might be a better option to just start here. You can’t really go wrong either way, so at the end of the day you should trust your instincts.

DNA origami "machines" from Carlos Castro's group at OSU

New neighborhood artwork from David Goodsell