Thanks for stopping by our website... :) At the COoL lab we pursue research that spans a few different areas of science including biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology, geochemistry (to name a few). We use tools from these diverse areas to answer one of the most fundamental questions in science: How did life originate on our planet? In other words, how did chemistry transition to biology?

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In all, our research has fundamental implications for synthetic life biology and astrobiology applications.

We hope that by the end of your browsing, you will get a basic idea of what is it that motivates us to do what we do.