Prof. Nair presents at the Tufts Cellular Agriculture Innovation Day (Jan 10)
Prof. Nair talks about microbial solutions to food sustainability.

Prof. Nair presents at the International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering (Jan 8)
Prof. Nair talks about codon usage bias and how it affects cellular fitness and resource competition at ICBE in Houston, TX.

Damayanti’s manuscript has been accepted for publication! (Jan 3)
The collaboration with Kaplan and Lee labs on using microbial lysates as an alternative to FBS (fetal bovine serum) is out now in Food Research International!

New manuscripts from the lab!
We posted two new manuscripts on bioRxiv, The first one is on using microbial lysates as serum alternatives for cultivated meat applications. The second one is on evaluating spore coat proteins as carriers for protein & enzyme display applications.

Prof. Nair hosts the 7th Annual International Conference on Microbiome Engineering at Tufts (Nov 12-14)!

Rana presents a lightning talk and poster!

New group picture! (Oct 31)
Here, in the people page.

Avani Vaid officially joins the group! (Oct 8)
Welcome Avani, the newest Ph.D. candidate in the Nair lab!

Prof. Nair travels for seminars (Oct 1-3)
Prof. Nair delivers seminars at Oklahoma State University CEAT, the University of Tulsa ChE, and Johns Hopkins University ChemBE. Thanks to Profs. Ramsey, Johannes, and Ostermeier for the invitation!

Prof. Nair gives a seminar at the University of Houston (Sept. 13)
Thanks so much to Prof. Pat Cirino for inviting me to visit the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering!

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.