News

New effort supported by DARPA and new team member! (Aug 22)
I’m excited to announce that we will be leading a DARPA Switch effort on sustainable biomanufacturing with Dr. Matt McNulty of TUCCA, Dr. Amin Nikkhah from Friedman and Dr. Todd Chappell from Enrich Bio. Tufts Now! news story here.

In addition, Dr. Zhanyi Yao will be joining the lab as a post-doctoral scholar the help us with the project. Welcome, Zhanyi!

A new manuscript in collaboration with Manus Bio and Kcat Enzymatic! (Aug 1)
You can find a pre-print of our new paper where we describe a new pathway to make D-tagatose (a rare sugar) directly from glucose. The work was led by Aaron Love (Tufts/Manus) and Chris Toomey (Manus) with great support by computational enzyme engineering team at Kcat Enzymatic (India).

The lab attends the annual BBM meeting (Jun 10-11).
Rana, Behnia, Jessica, Avani, and Bec attend BBM at the Harvard Science Center. Bec and Jessica present posters, and Prof. Nair participates in a panel on microbes and climate change.

Several changes in the lab personnel (May 20).
Yiming and Tyler graduated with MS degrees in Biology and Biochemistry, respectively. Yiming has accepted a position at GenScript and Tyler will start a PhD program this Fall. Sam graduated with his BS and has accepted a position a BillionToOne. Good luck to all of them in their future careers!

We’re looking for a post-doc! (Apr 22)
We’re looking for someone with extensive expertise in yeast (S. cerevisiae) engineering, especially with genome editing and pathway engineering. Please email Prof. Nair if you are interested.

Prof. Nair gives a departmental seminar at Northeastern University! (Mar 12)
Thank you, Prof. Woolston, for the invitation!

Prof. Nair gives a departmental seminar at UC-Riverside! (Mar 7)
Thanks to Prof. Wheeldon for the invitation!