Our lab is excited about communicating our research on artificial cells and lipid membranes to the general public.
High school students used their bodies to represent lipid molecules and arranged themselves to illustrate the structure of a micelle. Photo credit: Dr. Nan Renner
Devaraj lab graduate students working with the San Diego Science Project at UC San Diego, guiding local high school students with a step-by-step procedure to create vesicles with a lipid bilayer membrane. Photo credit: Dr. Nan Renner
We have developed an educational component integrating our bottom-up synthetic cell research with an existing coordinated effort at UC San Diego to improve the STEM pipeline K-20 in San Diego. Our goal is to expose a range of students and teachers to synthetic biology topics.