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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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 …

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April 2022

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 …

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