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We are a new lab at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla. Here are real time updates of the lab building and growth. Follow us and join us on our adventure!

We're hiring! 

Postdocs and graduate students training backgrounds in synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, analytical chemistry, synthetic biology, and molecular biology are highly encouraged to apply

Postdoc application portal can be found here!

Lab Life

8.29.2024

First Liu Lab retreat in Julian, CA!

Welcome Dr. Crames and Yongheng Gao! 

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8.14.2024

Goodbye BCC and hello CHWL!

We're ready for the new academic year and new students! 

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5.1.2024

Our first postdoc Dr. Yihan Yang!

Welcome and we're beyond excited to have you on the team!

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3.29.2024

First poster and first conference of the Liu Lab!

Thank you to the Build-a-Cell community for being so welcoming!  

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2.4.2024

Hotpot of celebration: 
1. Alex joining the lab!
2. Yuki and Heewon (about to) sta
rting their rotation!
3. Yongheng and Sakina finishing their visit/rotation: thank you both for all the laughter and results! 

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12.24.2023

First Christmas in the Liu Lab!

So proud to have such a talented and collaborative team! Looking forward to another year of collaboration and success!

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10.31.2023

After groundbreaking work (science and lab construction), we celebrate Halloween as a group of six. Congrats to Celine whose split GFP costume is the winner of the year! 

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08.21.2023

The first member of the lab just joined this week.. 

Welcome Max!

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08.01.2023

The Liu Lab @ Scripps
has officially moved in
Beckman Center for Chemical Sciences

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07.10.2023

We now have a door

The lab/office renovation will finish at the end of July, just in time to welcome the incoming graduate students. Apply to rotate with us! 

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06.10.2023

ME15 in Singapore

It was an adventure in Singapore!

First in-person conference since the pandemic and first time presenting about the total biosynthesis of QS-21 in engineered yeast. 

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05.11.2023

It's official!

TSRI's official announcement on Yuzhong joining the Department of Chemistry! 

https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2023/20220510-liu-faculty.html

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04.26.2023

That's the lab!

Here's the Liu Lab @Scripps space that everyone's raving about. 

It's also a beautiful spring thanks to the ridiculous amount of rainfall this year.

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04.24.2023

Getting started!

Cleaning out the chest freezers and chemical cabinets from Professor Peter Vogt's lab, who have been in this lab space for more than three decades! 

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