June 2024

The lab attends the 30th annual Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) at BU (Jun 3-4)!
Damayanti and Rana present their work in the poster session.

May 2024

Prof. Nair hoods Aaron at commencement! (May 18)
Congratulations, again, Aaron!

Hooding Aaron

Jessica Lee completes her thesis proposal! (May 6)
Congratulations to Jessica on completing another milestone towards her degree. She assembled her thesis committee and successfully defended her project plan.

April 2024

Aaron Love successfully defends his thesis! (Apr 24)
Congratulations to Aaron for successfully defending this thesis! Here’s a paper that’s a part of his body of work: Specific codons control cellular resources and fitness (2024) Science Advances.

Presenting his work
Celebratory group picture
Kat, Aaron’s wife, helping with the celebrations!

Paper accepted in Biotechnology & Bioengineering! (Apr 15)
Todd’s & Jessica’s paper on production optimization and characterization of the landomycin class of natural products from Streptomyces sp. is now accepted! It’s a fantastic collaboration with Bennett and Mace labs in Chemistry and Lee lab in ChBE. (link)

March 2024

Prof. Nair and Rana attend ACS BIOT in New Orleans, LA (Mar 17-21)
Rana presents her work on engineering PAL enzyme.
Prof. Nair presents 3 talks on yeast engineering, synthetic codon biasing, and spore engineering.

Prof. Nair presents a seminar at Lafayette College in Easton, PA (Mar 5)
Thanks to Profs. Michael Bertucci and Michael Senra for the invitation! (tweet)