May 2023

Sean and Rana attend SynBioBeta (May 23-25)!Sean won a departmental scholarship to cover his costs and Rana received funds from SynBioBeta to attend the meeting!links to tweets: 1, 2 Trevor and Sean graduate! (May 20)Congratulations to Trevor Nicks and Sean Sullivan for graduating from the lab with their PhDs! Trevor will work on his company, …

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April 2023

Caravel Bio wins Tufts 100K Challenge! (Apr 13)Congratulations to grad student Trevor Nicks (+ co-founder Emily Wenberg) for winning the Tufts $100k New Ventures Competition held at the Derby Entrepreneurship Center! His company, Caravel Bio, based on his thesis work will advance biomanufacturing using bacterial spores! (link)

November 2022

The lab is represented at the annual AIChE meeting in Phoenix, AZ (Nov 13-18). Ella Boateng joins the lab! (Nov 8)Ella (E’25) joins the lab. She will be working with Damayanti on pathogen detection.

October 2022

Prof. Nair talks about PAL engineering/characterization using deep sequencing (Oct 21)Thanks to Prof. Abhishek Chatterjee (BC Chem) and Cell Press for organizing the Lab Links event on Biocatalysis. Vikas’ manuscript in collaboration with the Van Deventer group is out! (Oct 9)The paper describing the use of yeast display to engineer bacterial-yeast interactions is now accepted …

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