January 2024

Hannah You joins the lab! (Jan 17)Hannah is majoring in biochemistry and will be working with Jessica Lee. Aaron’s paper is FINALLY accepted! (Jan 3)What an excellent New Year’s gift! Congratulations Aaron. The pre-print is here – the paper should be out in a few weeks.

November 2023

A new collaborative manuscript is out now on bioRxiv! (Nov 12)Our first foray into the world of natural products is a collaboration with Profs. Bennett, Mace, and Lee. We describe the optimization of biosynthesis and characterization of several key landomycins derived from Streptomyces spp. (link) Nair goes to AIChE 2023 (Nov 5-8)Prof. Nair is presenting …

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September 2023

Prof. Nair gives an invited seminar at UMass-Amherst (Sept 19)The talk on engineering yeast metabolism covered topics described in Venkatesh’s, Vikas’, and Sean’s papers. Link to announcement on X/Twitter. Thanks to Prof. Lauren Andrews for inviting me!

July 2023

Sean’s and Vikas’ papers are highlighted by Tufts Now! (Jul 18)Thanks to Mike Silver for covering our work (paper 1, paper 2) and writing an excellent summary piece for Tufts Now.

June 2023

The lab goes to Boston Bacterial Meeting (June 12-13)Aaron presents a poster on codon use in E. coli and wins the best poster award!! Congratulations, Aaron! Prof. Nair attends Metabolic Engineering 15 in Singapore (June 11-15) Prof. Nair presents the lab’s work on yeast engineering (papers 1, 2, 3) and posters on spore and codon …

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