We develop new biophysical methods to understand how molecular machines edit and repair our genomes. Current lab interests include CRISPR-cas adaptive immunity and eukaryotic DNA repair.

February 16, 2026: IJF is featured in The Texas Scientist cover story on gene editing — “Cut, Paste, Cure.” (Text,PDF)

December 19, 2025: Selma, Hongshan, and Eric’s One-Pot isothermal CRISPR detection paper is published in ACS Synthetic Biology.

November 19, 2025: IJF is quoted in Popular Mechanics on DNA data storage — “All of Humanity’s Knowledge Could Become Immortal Inside a Tiny Device.” (Text,PDF)

October 28, 2025: Jesse Buffington is awarded an NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship.

October 23, 2025: Jesse, Jami, Kuang, You-Chiun, and Kamyab’s retron genome editing paper is published in Nature Biotechnology. Our work is written up in CNS News (Text,PDF), SciTechDaily (Text,PDF), and ScienceDaily (Text,PDF).

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