Professor Aaron Leconte received a SEED grant from Research Corporation for Science Advancement to develop new technologies for making biotechnologically relevant versions of modified DNA. The award provides funding for a postbaccalaureate research assistant in 2025-2026. The project was originally conceived with Madison Seto (SCR ’21) during the pandemic, and kickstarted in lab by Ysabel David (SCR ’25) in the last few years.
SEED Award (Research Corporation for Science Advancement), “Towards XNA PCR: Evaluating the potential of fusion domains to improve XNA polymerases”, Principal Investigator, $60,000 (2024-2026).