Assoc. Prof. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, nanotechnologist, bioengineer, interdisciplinarian, and paper and molecular model fanatic
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined March 2007
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Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
Apply by August 1st for the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop supporting female graduate students and postdocs considering careers in academia.
meche.engineering.cmu.edu/ri…
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@SchulzScience_ and I created a guide to figure-making, with a focus on using open-source materials and software (Inkscape). We've also made all our teaching materials openly available. We think it provides a good intro for trainees:
github.com/nrokh/ScientificF…
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
Funny thing about science is that If you ignore the existing literature or never bother to read it every single one of your findings is a fantastic novel breakthrough!
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
Are you a female graduate student or postdoc considering a career in academia?
Apply by August 1 for the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop to gain career skills, connect with a cohort of peers, and engage with mentors.
meche.engineering.cmu.edu/ri…
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
1st meeting of #Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories, cosponsored by RCSA, @BeckmanFnd, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and Walder Foundation, ends today with proposals to accelerate innovation in basic research through advances in automated instrumentation & AI.
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
Carolyn Bertozzi on the "false dichotomy" of meritocracy vs. diversity/inclusion: "First of all I'd say that you really can't make any case that your system is a meritocracy if you can't see the diversity of human beings represented." Watch the interview: youtube.com/watch?v=SLFjqdGy…
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
@jrbexbox I see you!
50+ Fellows have been selected for the 1st meeting of a 3-year #Scialog co-sponsored by RCSA & @BeckmanFnd. It aims to accelerate innovation in basic research & broaden access in the chemical enterprise through advances in automated instrumentation & AI. bit.ly/46xRz59
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
CMU MechE is hiring!
We have multiple tenure-track and a teaching-track position open. Full details here:
meche.engineering.cmu.edu/em…
That moment when you realize the NSF won't update your proposal's status again until after the holiday, but you keep checking anyway.
As we work to build ever-smaller and more uniform micro- and nanorobots, milliscale models help us understand locomotion determinants!
Buoyant magnetic milliswimmers reveal design rules for optimizing microswimmer performance - now published in Nanoscale pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
Our work with cerebral #organoids and #TBI is published @SciReports! Many thanks to my advisors and collaborators! @pascalzinn @LeDucLab_CMU @jrbexbox @AHabibMD nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
🔓 #OpenAccess + Most Read in the past 30 days: "Synthetic Cell Armor Made of DNA Origami" by Wang, Hayes, Ren, & @jrbexbox
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We are delighted that Nature has written a highlight about our team’s recent work on tunable DNA-based nanoshells for cells. Congrats to Weitao Wang for leading this! Thanks to Xi (Charlie) Ren for being such an amazing collaborator. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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New paper alert: Our simple DNA origami exoshell can act like cell armor — it can tunably modulate effective stiffness and protect cells from mechanically challenging environments such as osmotic swelling, high fluid shear and centrifugation:
doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett…
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
Really pleased to announce our new paper! We present a first solution to a reverse problem that has not been tackled before in DNA nanotechnology 🧬: inferring a DNA origami design given just the underlying scaffold and staple sequences: doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2023.…
Rebecca Taylor (@jrbexbox.bsky.social) retweeted
My first paper as joint senior author has been accepted in Advanced Materials 🥳 With the triplex origami method, researchers can achieve a level of artificial control over the shape of double-stranded DNA that was previously unimaginable. Can't wait to see where this will lead!
So far, DNA nanotech has almost exclusively relied on Watson-Crick base interactions. In our new paper in Advanced Materials, we show that Hoogsteen interactions have the same potential to organize double-stranded DNA. @iNANO_AarhusUni, @Chemistry, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
My high school gave out books at graduation… mostly religious books, but you could request something else if it had more meaning for you. So as a child of Knoxville, I received a copy of Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. I guess it’s now time to reread that wonderful book. Sad day.
If you love DNA, get ready, because now you can print your own flexible and hybridization-capable models of both DNA and PNA! (instructions and links in paper)
Modular, Articulated Models of DNA and Peptide Nucleic Acids for Nanotechnology Education meridian.allenpress.com/the-…
