Aaron Leconte received an R15 award from the National Institutes of Health. The grant supports his research group’s ongoing work characterizing and engineering firefly luciferase as a tool for imaging cells. The award provides $503,298 of support over three years to support student salaries, instrumentation, and materials.
R15 Award (National Institutes of Health), 鈥淗igh-throughput engineering and characterization of brighter luciferases鈥�, Principal Investigator, $503,298 (2025-2028)
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Aaron Leconte published “” in聽ACS Omega. This article is part of a special issue in ACS Omega highlighting research done at primarily undergraduate institutions. In this work, the authors show new, robust methods for making new chemical classes of biotechnologically useful versions of modified DNA using enzymes developed in the Leconte lab. Three undergraduate students, Hailey Kang (CMC 鈥�24), Ananya Venkatesh (SCR 鈥�21), and Serena Liu (SCR 鈥�24), were co-authors on the manuscript and made significant contributions to this work.
*indicates equal contribution; underline聽indicates Claremont Colleges undergraduate
H.E. Kang*,听A. Venkatesh*,听S.C. Liu,听补苍诲听A.M. Leconte聽(2025). Enzymatic synthesis of mixed XNA polymers containing 2鈥�-fluoro and 2鈥�-azide modifications, ACS Omega.
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