July 2023

Sean’s and Vikas’ papers are highlighted by Tufts Now! (Jul 18)Thanks to Mike Silver for covering our work (paper 1, paper 2) and writing an excellent summary piece for Tufts Now.

June 2023

The lab goes to Boston Bacterial Meeting (June 12-13)Aaron presents a poster on codon use in E. coli and wins the best poster award!! Congratulations, Aaron! Prof. Nair attends Metabolic Engineering 15 in Singapore (June 11-15) Prof. Nair presents the lab’s work on yeast engineering (papers 1, 2, 3) and posters on spore and codon …

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May 2023

Sean and Rana attend SynBioBeta (May 23-25)!Sean won a departmental scholarship to cover his costs and Rana received funds from SynBioBeta to attend the meeting!links to tweets: 1, 2 Trevor and Sean graduate! (May 20)Congratulations to Trevor Nicks and Sean Sullivan for graduating from the lab with their PhDs! Trevor will work on his company, …

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April 2023

Caravel Bio wins Tufts 100K Challenge! (Apr 13)Congratulations to grad student Trevor Nicks (+ co-founder Emily Wenberg) for winning the Tufts $100k New Ventures Competition held at the Derby Entrepreneurship Center! His company, Caravel Bio, based on his thesis work will advance biomanufacturing using bacterial spores! (link)

November 2022

The lab is represented at the annual AIChE meeting in Phoenix, AZ (Nov 13-18). Ella Boateng joins the lab! (Nov 8)Ella (E’25) joins the lab. She will be working with Damayanti on pathogen detection.