Trevor Wins Tufts Pride on the Hill Award! (Mar 18)
Congratulations, Trevor!
The Pride on the Hill Award is named for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender alumni organization of Tufts. The award honors undergraduate or graduate students who, through community involvement, artistic expression, written work or scientific research have contributed the most to an understanding at Tufts of gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender identities during the preceding academic year.

Manuscript accepted! (Feb 21)
Congrats to Sara and Venkatesh for having their manuscript “Establishing Synthesis Pathway-Host Compatibility via Enzyme Solubility” accepted for publication in Biotechnology & Bioengineering! link & bioRxiv

Another manuscript up on bioRxiv! (Feb 12)
Joe’s manuscript titled, “Surpassing thermodynamic, kinetic, and stability barriers to isomerization catalysis for tagatose biosynthesis” is up! (link) Fingers crossed for the peer-review!

Prof. Nair gives a seminar at the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. (Feb 6 – 7)
Thanks to Prof. Zengyi Shao and Prof. Tom Mansell for the invitation and the opportunity to present our work on non-native substrate metabolism in S. cerevisiae (link).

New manuscript preprint up! (Feb 1)
Sara’s new manuscript is up on bioRxiv! It’s about incorporating enzyme promiscuity to expand genome-scale metabolic models and explain the presence of unaccounted metabolites seen in metabolomics data! (link)

Prof. Nair goes to the ICBE meeting in Newport Beach, CA! (Jan 6 – 9)
At the International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering, Prof. Nair presented a talk on Venkatesh’s, Sean’s, and Vikas’ work on engineering substrate metabolism in baker’s yeast.

Emma leaves the lab (Dec 17)
Goodbye, Emma! Good luck with your study-abroad next semester in Scottland!

The Nair lab goes to AIChE Annual Meeting! (Oct 28 – Nov 1)
Joe and Vikas make to Pittsburgh, PA safely!

We have a giant get together for lunch with the Zhao lab, its alumni, and their advisees. We took over nearly half the restaurant! Picture coming soon!

Sara (co-advised by Soha Hassoun) presents her talk at the “Integrative Systems Biology” session. (tweet)

Joe presents his work at the “Metabolic Engineering in Non-Model Organisms” session (tweet)

Vikas presents his work at the “Synthetic Biology Applications” session (tweet)

The Tufts iGEM team wins Bronze! (Oct 29)
Huge congratulations to the Tufts iGEM team for winning a bronze medal at the 2018 iGEM Jamboree held in Boston! See all the results here. (tweet)