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!

Prof. Nair is elected as a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)! (Feb 20)
Thanks to all the Nair lab members for their exemplary work and to the Tufts NAI fellows, Profs. Panetta and Arulanandam, for supporting my nomination! See the official posting here and Tufts’ press release.

Prof. Nair gives a departmental seminar at SUNY-Buffalo! (Jan 12)
Thanks to Prof. Gunawan for the invitation!

Prof. Nair gives a departmental seminar at WPI! (Jan 21)
Thanks to Prof. Young for the invitation!

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!