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.
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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 …
September 2022
New manuscript online now! (Sept 21)Aaron’s manuscript on the role of codon usage on cellular resources and fitness is online as a pre-print now on bioRxiv. Sam Littman joins the lab! (Sept 16)Sam (A’25) joins the lab. He will be working with Bec on PAL engineering. Arushi leaves the lab (Sept 1)Arushi Kalia leaves the …
July 2022
The accepted manuscript is now published! (Jul 25)The collaborative paper on stabilizing PAL enzyme using silk with the Silk Lab is out now in Molecular Pharmaceutics (ACS) (link 1, link 2)! Manuscript accepted! (Jul 7)Vikas’ manuscript on stabilizing PAL enzyme using silk, in collaboration with the Omenetto silklab, is now accepted in Molecular Pharmaceutics!
June 2022
Congrats to Alen for winning a summer scholarship! (Jun 23)The ChBE summer scholarship will support his research in the lab this summer. The lab welcomes new members! (Jun 6, 15)Arushi Kalia joins as an REU summer student for the summer and Dr. Damayanti Chakravarty joins as a post-doc scholar! The lab goes to Boston Bacterial …