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!
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 …
A new manuscript is out by the lab! (Apr 23)We propose that yeast is innately adaptable to metabolizing non-native substrates – it just asked nicely 😉. (bioRxiv, tweet) Alen Alshinbayev (A’ 25) joins the lab! (Apr 15)The lab welcomes Alen to the group! He will be working with Rana on engineering protein and lactic acid …
Vikas and Aaron attend the Spring ACS BIOT meeting in San Diego, CA (Mar 19-24)
The group welcomes Joe Balkan! (Feb 28)Joe is a sophomore majoring in Chemical Engineering and will be working on engineering synthetic heterotrophy in yeast. Goodbye, and good luck to Vikas! (Feb 13)After nearly 5 years, Vikas leaves the lab for a scientist position at St. Jude’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. But we still have …