Prof. Nair visits his alma mater to deliver a seminar! (1/29)
Prof. Nair returned to Cornell and presented results from Venkatesh’s work on xylose metabolism in yeast. It was great to be back in Ithaca after almost a decade and a half after graduation! Thanks to Prof. Matthew DeLisa for the invitation.
October 2017
Prof. Nair attends AIChE in Minneapolis, MN (10/29 – 11/1)
While there, he gave a talk on Zac and Joe’s work on engineering microbes to treat metabolic disorders and also a poster on Sara and Venkatesh’s work on predicted metabolic disruptions in metabolically engineered cells.
Prof. Nair also met up with current and previous members of the Zhao lab for lunch!
New members join the lab! (Oct 6)
Trevor Nicks and Sean Sullivan join the lab as new PhD students.
Aaron Love joins the lab as a new part-time PhD student, sponsored by ManusBio.
Brett Irwin joins the lab as a new MS student in Bioengineering!
Welcome, all!
More info on the people page!
September 2017
Prof. Nair gives a talk at NC State! (Sept 18)
Thanks to Dr. Chase Beisel for the invitation! It was great to meet the faculty in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering! (link here)
Look who’s picture is being used to welcome people to Tufts University!
August 2017
Prof. Nair receives an R03 grant from NIH!
The grant will support our ongoing efforts to engineer probiotics for therapeutic benefit.
Nair lab REU students Emily and Karlos present posters on their summer research! (Aug 8)
Karlos Zachary and Emily Chicklis present their work in poster format to the department. This also concludes their REU tenure at Tufts, so goodbye! We wish you the best for the future!
Prof. Nair is invited to give a talk at SIMB Annual Meeting 2017! (Jul 31 – Aug 3)
Prof. Nair presents an invited talk in “Metabolic Engineering for Fuels and Chemicals I” at Society of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology annual meeting in (Mile-High City) Denver, CO.
Prof. Nair also meet up with his former graduate advisor Prof. Huimin Zhao and lab mate Prof. Zengyi Shao.
Dr. Vikas Trivedi joins the lab as a postdoctoral scholar! (Aug 1)
Welcome, Vikas!
July 2017
Prof. Nair attends Biochemical & Molecular Engineering XX! (Jul 16 – 20)
Prof. Nair presented a talk on Venkatesh’s work titled “New Design Rules for Engineering Non-native Nutrient Assimilation” and a poster on Joe and Zac’s work titled “Engineering the Microbiota to Treat Metabolic Disorders” in sunny Newport Beach, CA.