February 2022

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 …

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January 2022

A twofer Friday! (Jan 19)A real good Friday! Jessica Lee passed her qualifying exam and Vikas + Todd’s PAL DMS manuscript got accepted in ACS Catalysis today (link)! Congratulation all around! Back with stricter rules! (Jan 3)We start the new semester with stricter guidelines for COVID – 3x pooled testing/week and high-efficiency masks only! It’s …

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November 2021

The Nair lab goes to the annual AIChE meeting… in downtown Boston! (Nov 7-12)Sean and Prof. Nair will present a talk each whereas Vikas will present two talks! (tweet1, tweet2, tweet3) Prof. Nair is also organizing a session on Synthetic Biology tool development. (tweet)