Prof. Nair gives a talk at NC State! (Sept 18) Thanks to Dr. Chase Beisel for the invitation! It was great to meet the faculty in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering! (link here) Look who’s picture is being used to welcome people to Tufts University!
Prof. Nair receives an R03 grant from NIH! The grant will support our ongoing efforts to engineer probiotics for therapeutic benefit. Nair lab REU students Emily and Karlos present posters on their summer research! (Aug 8) Karlos Zachary and Emily Chicklis present their work in poster format to the department. This also concludes their REU tenure at Tufts, …
Prof. Nair attends Biochemical & Molecular Engineering XX! (Jul 16 – 20) Prof. Nair presented a talk on Venkatesh’s work titled “New Design Rules for Engineering Non-native Nutrient Assimilation” and a poster on Joe and Zac’s work titled “Engineering the Microbiota to Treat Metabolic Disorders” in sunny Newport Beach, CA.
The Nair lab is moving to a new research space! (Jun 19 – 23) We are moving from our current location in SciTech to the newly constructed Science and Engineering Complex (SEC). The move will not only double our research space but will also enable more seamless collaborations with members from the Departments of Biology and Biomedical …
Prof. Nair talks to biology students at Pine Manor College (Chestnut Hill, MA) about Zac’s and Joe’s projects on gut microbiota engineering (May 2). Thanks to Dr. Katie Mattaini of the Sackler’s TEACRS program for the invitation! Congrats to Todd for completing his thesis proposal (May 4)! Jeremy’s paper on predicting abortive RNA in E. coli is …