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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January 2018

Prof. Nair visits his alma mater to deliver a seminar! (1/29) Prof. Nair returned to Cornell and presented results from Venkatesh’s work on xylose metabolism in yeast. It was great to be back in Ithaca after almost a decade and a half after graduation! Thanks to Prof. Matthew DeLisa for the invitation.

October 2017

Prof. Nair attends AIChE in Minneapolis, MN (10/29 – 11/1) While there, he gave a talk on Zac and Joe’s work on engineering microbes to treat metabolic disorders and also a poster on Sara and Venkatesh’s work on predicted metabolic disruptions in metabolically engineered cells. Prof. Nair also met up with current and previous members …

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September 2017

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!