June 2018

  Prof. Nair goes to Munich for Metabolic Engineering 12! (June 24 – 28) …and presents a poster on Venkatesh’s work. It was also great to see Dr. Zhao and meet some of the lab alumni.           Nair lab’s first graduate finds a job! (June 21) Congratulations to Venkatesh for getting a …

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May 2018

Sean and Trevor pass their oral qualifiers! (May 31) Congrats to Sean and Trevor for successfully passing their oral qualifying exam! A job well done! Venkatesh’s work featured in NSF’s Science 360! (May 22) Links to NSF Science 360 and Youtube. Venkatesh graduates! (May 19) Prof. Nair hooded Venkatesh, the first PhD student to graduate from the Nair …

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April 2018

Venkatesh successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis! (April 17) Congratulation, Venkatesh – job well done! Thanks to his committee members, Prof. Joshua Krizter, Prof. Kyong Lee, and Prof. Lee Lynd (who came down from Dartmouth and presented an excellent talk earlier in the day). Emma joins the lab! (April 10) Emma Meehan (ChBE ’21) joins the lab as …

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March 2018

Prof. Nair attends ACS BIOT spring meeting in New Orleans, LA. (Mar 18 – 22) Met current and former Zhao lab members, as always, for lunch. Small group this time – with Zengyi Shao (Iowa State), Huimin Zhao (UIUC), Ryan Cobb (Dow Agrosciences), and Behnam Enghiad (grad student in the Zhao lab).   Venkatesh’s paper is accepted for …

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