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!
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!
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.
The Nair lab is moving to a new research space! (Jun 19 – 23)
We are moving from our current location in SciTech to the newly constructed Science and Engineering Complex (SEC). The move will not only double our research space but will also enable more seamless collaborations with members from the Departments of Biology and Biomedical Engineering.
Pictures from the move:
The Nair lab goes to Boston Bacterial Meeting! (Jun 15 – 16)
As always, there was a great set of talks and posters at the 23rd annual BBM! Todd presented a poster on his recent B&B publication! See pictures below:
Bonus: pictured with Todd here is Prof. Katie Berry (Mt. Holyoke College), a former colleague of Prof. Nair from the Hochschild lab.
The Nair lab visits Medford High School for the 3rd year in a row! (Jun 12 – 14)
As part of our goals to increase the visibility of engineering and synthetic biology, we (Bruno, Todd, Zac, Prof. Nair) visited Ms. Audrey Feitor Carmosino‘s Honors Biology class at MHS. We engaged the students using a CSI-type forensic investigation, over three 1-hour classes. We think we made a real difference.
We’d also like to thank Karen O’Hagan (Tufts Chemistry Outreach Specialist) for her immense help!
For more information on the modules, visit the Outreach page.
Pictures from the visit (thanks, Karen O’Hagan, for capturing these moments!):
REU students arrive!
The lab welcomes REU students Emily Chicklis (Simmons College) and Karlos Zachary (U of Minnesota, Duluth) to the lab! Emily will work on a project in collaboration with Prof. Soha Hassoun and Karlos in collaboration with Prof. Xiaocheng Jiang.
Cassidy Hubert graduates with BS in ChBE!
Cassidy leaves the lab after almost 2 years. We wish her the best in her future career!
Joe’s review article accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Microbiology!
The review article Joe wrote with Matt Waller from the Chase Beisel lab at NC State is accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Microbiology! Congrats, Joe! (link)
Todd’s paper is accepted for publication in Biotechnology & Bioengineering!
Todd’s manuscript on engineering a consortium of E. coli to consume hexoses is accepted for publication in Biotechnology & Bioengineering! Congrats, Todd! (link)
Prof. Nair talks to biology students at Pine Manor College (Chestnut Hill, MA) about Zac’s and Joe’s projects on gut microbiota engineering (May 2).
Thanks to Dr. Katie Mattaini of the Sackler’s TEACRS program for the invitation!
Congrats to Todd for completing his thesis proposal (May 4)!
Jeremy’s paper on predicting abortive RNA in E. coli is out!
I hope this is a first of many more peer-reviewed articles authored by an undergrad at Tufts! The work was a collaboration with Prof. Soha Hassoun (Tufts CS) and was sponsored by Tufts Summer Scholar program. Here’s a link to the paper in Genomics!
Congrats to Bruno for completing his thesis proposal (May 31)!