Congratulations to Dr. Taryn Imamura and Dr. Vismaya Walawalkar for successfully defending their theses!

Congratulations to Lainie Beauchemin presenting her work "Peptide Nucleic Acid-Based Biomolecular Condensates Enable Enzyme-Resistant Cargo Retention" at DNA32: The 32nd International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming!

And thank you to the DNA32 organizing committee co-chairs Prof. Matt Patitz and Prof. Trent Rogers for organizing such an exciting meeting.

The contingent from the Taylor Lab recently attended the first-ever Mid-Atlantic DNA Nanotech Workshop (miDNAno) hosted by Prof. Carlos Castro at Ohio State. This was a tremendous opportunity to bring the community together and share our research. I look forward to many more!

Here are two photos: the Taylor Lab attendees (left-to-right: Rebecca "Bex" Taylor, Lainie Beauchemin, Isabella Ferranti, Logan Carpeter, A.J. Vetturini, Praneetha Sundar Prakash and Pei-Ying "Emily" Lin.) and whole group photo of all of the miDNAno attendees!

Many thanks to Prof. Christian Cuba Samaniego (CMU) and Prof. Leopold Green (Purdue) for inviting me to present at the Cold Spring Harbor Synthetic Biology 2026 summer course. Congratulations to the CSHL teaching team for recruiting such a fabulous group of engaged students and for creating such an exciting and supportive environment for research and learning! It was an absolute pleasure to present our lab's work.

Many thanks to Max Bronstein and Carnegie Mellon University for organizing the ARPA-H Go fly-in to Capitol Hill. It was a pleasure presenting on our transformative science and the impact of biotechnology moonshots.

Congratulations to Taryn Imamura for being named one of the three 2026 Lawrence Fellows from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

Taryn will begin her 3-year fellowship this Fall at LLNL, and we look forward to her continued work at the intersection of robotics, materials and bioengineering!

Congrats to undergrads Shriya Sivakumar, Vanessa Wu and Ivy Zhen for their poster presentations at the 2026 Meeting of the Minds! Here are the poster titles:

• Shriya presented "Modular DNA Origami Design for Staple Conservation"

• Vanessa presented "Simulation-Guided Design of Tetrahedral Framework Nucleic Acid for Enhanced Mechanical Stability"

• Ivy presented "Investigating Local and Bulk Condensate Properties of Novel DNA Nanostar Geometries"

Congrats to undergraduate Nicholas Chung on being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Congratulations to Isabella Ferranti for winning the Mary Jane and Milton C. Shaw Graduate Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering! Hooray, Isabella!

Congratulations to AJ for winning a Seeman Student Travel Award and for presenting his work "Automated design of hollowframe DNA origami nanostructures" at FNANO26 in Munich, Germany.

Many thanks to the organizing committee co-chairs Profs. Kurt Gothelf (Aarhus), Hao Yan (ASU) and Friedrich Simmel (TUM) for organizing such an exciting meeting!