Author: Nikhil Nair

Zac’s and Karishma’s paper is accepted! (Mar 30)
Congratulations to Zac and Karishma for co-first authoring a paper on directed evolution of AvPAL – the active ingredient in Palynziq/Pegvaliase – used in the treatment of PKU! The paper will soon appear in ChemComm!

Lab closes temporarily amid COVID-19 concerns (Mar 20)
We’re closing the lab to minimize the spread of SARS-CoV2 in the Medford area. We hope to be back soon once everyone has a better handle on the pandemic and pick up in a few weeks.

A new manuscript by Zac & Karishma et al. up on bioRxiv! (Feb 24)
Happy to share a new manuscript on directed evolution of enzyme AvPAL* (the active ingredient in pegvaliase/Palynziq) to identify mutants with improved properties! (link to bioRxiv and tweet)

Zac’s paper is accepted in ACS Synthetic Biology! (Jan 7)
The paper describes the development of a new method to measure and engineer mucus adhesion of probiotics. (link, bioRxiv)

Bruno defends his thesis! (Dec 19)
Congratulations, Bruno! (tweet)

Trevor attends the Cell-Free Systems Conference in downtown Boston! (Dec 4 – 6)
Trevor was representing the group at the conference and presented a poster on his work related to spore display for cell-free metabolic engineering.

Joe’s work is highlighted in Tufts Now! (Nov 21)
Thanks to Mike Silver for the writeup on Tufts Now! (link)
This writeup seems to have gained some traction! ~50 K likes on reddit (link).

Prof. Nair gives an invited talk at the annual AIChE conference! (Nov 10 – 15)
Thanks to Prof. Tagbo Neipa and Prof. Elizabeth Stewart for extending the invitation to speak in the Topical session “Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces”. (tweet)

Joe (ahem… Dr. Bober) leaves the lab and finds a real job! (Nov 1)
Congratulations, Joe for accepting a job as Organism Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks!