The Morsut Lab is pleased to welcome two new members: Marion Johnson and Alexander March. Marion attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where she acquired a bachelor’s degree in biology and completed an undergraduate thesis investigating the role of a cellular organizer on spider development in black and brown widows. A long-time resident of Southern Read More…

The price of progress is not only the energy and talent of stem cell scientists, but also the research dollars that support their discoveries. In recent months, faculty members have secured numerous grants to support stem cell-based approaches to study and treat illnesses ranging from osteoarthritis to Alzheimer’s disease to cystic fibrosis. To read more, Read More…

Leonardo Morsut will give a seminar at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 24, from noon to 1pm. The topic is “Engineering cells with synthetic biology molecular tools to control their behavior for basic research and regenerative medicine applications.” For more information, visit ccnt.usc.edu/core/calendar/occurdetail.aspx?OID=114890&hdr=kru.

Leonardo Morsut will be at The Fourth International Workshop on Mammalian Synthetic Biology in Boston from May 6–7. He will moderate a session entitled “Developmental and Regenerative Biology.”

For USC Stem Cell researcher Leonardo Morsut, the word “set” refers to a collection of scientific data. “Set” is also the prelude to spiking a volleyball over the net—something he used to do for a living as a professional athlete in Italy. “In my mind, professional volleyball was always a side project,” said Morsut, who Read More…

Leonardo Morsut is chairing the session “Emerging Technologies–New Tools and Approaches: Molecular and Biochemical Technologies” at the Programming for the Division of Biochemical Technology (BIOT) 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting, held in San Francisco on April 4, 2017.

Leonardo Morsut will speak at the 2017 Society for Developmental Biology West Coast Meeting, which will be held on March 28-31 at Tenaya Lodget at Yosemite National Park. He will give a talk on Thursday, March 30, about programming cells to make developmental trajectories.

The Morsut Lab is pleased to introduce our new website.