February 2020

A new manuscript by Zac & Karishma et al. up on bioRxiv! (Feb 24)Happy to share a new manuscript on directed evolution of enzyme AvPAL* (the active ingredient in pegvaliase/Palynziq) to identify mutants with improved properties! (link to bioRxiv and tweet)

January 2020

Zac’s paper is accepted in ACS Synthetic Biology! (Jan 7)The paper describes the development of a new method to measure and engineer mucus adhesion of probiotics. (link, bioRxiv)

December 2019

Bruno defends his thesis! (Dec 19)Congratulations, Bruno! (tweet) Trevor attends the Cell-Free Systems Conference in downtown Boston! (Dec 4 – 6)Trevor was representing the group at the conference and presented a poster on his work related to spore display for cell-free metabolic engineering.