April 2017

The Nair lab goes to San Francisco, CA for the ACS BIOT meeting (Apr 2-6)! Had a great mini-reunion dinner with the past and present members of the Zhao lab (UIUC)! Members of Shao (Iowa State), Wu (New Hampshire), and Nair labs also joined in.         Bruno presents on engineering PGA synthetase.     …

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March 2017

First paper out of the lab! Congrats to Neda (co-advised with Prof. Soha Hassoun)! Her manuscript titled “Selection Finder (SelFi): A Computational Metabolic Engineering Tool to Enable Directed Evolution of Enzymes” was just accepted by Metabolic Engineering Communications. You can find the paper here. Prof. Nair is appointed an adjunct position at Tufts Medical School! Thanks to …

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November 2016

Tufts iGEM team wins Bronze in 2016 Jamboree! Congratulations to the members of the Tufts Synthetic Biology 2016 iGEM Team for winning bronze in the Fall Jamboree in Boston! Come support our team on Nov. 5, 2016 at Sound Bites in Somerville! Sound Bites has generously agreed to share proceeds from its business between 2pm and 9pm …

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October 2016

Dr. Nair named a 2016 NIH New Innovator! Exciting news for the Nair lab! Dr. Nair just received the highly prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award! This award was specifically designed to support exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact. Thanks to all the lab …

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