The Nair lab goes to San Francisco, CA for the ACS BIOT meeting (Apr 2-6)!

Had a great mini-reunion dinner with the past and present members of the Zhao lab (UIUC)! Members of Shao (Iowa State), Wu (New Hampshire), and Nair labs also joined in.

Bruno presents on engineering PGA synthetase.

Zac presents on engineering lactobacilli and PAL enzymes.

The Nair lab members participate in the first ChBE Graduate Symposium (Apr 7)!

Todd and Venkatesh present posters on their respective projects!

Prof. Nair presents a talk on Joe and Zac’s work at the Tufts Microbiome Interest Group (Apr 11)! Thanks to Prof. Jimmy Crott for inviting me!

Congrats to Zac for completing his thesis proposal (April 14)!

Prof. Nair presents a talk on Joe’s and Zac’s work on engineering the gut microbiota at The World Orphan Drug Congress in Washington DC (Apr 19-21)!

First paper out of the lab!

Congrats to Neda (co-advised with Prof. Soha Hassoun)! Her manuscript titled “Selection Finder (SelFi): A Computational Metabolic Engineering Tool to Enable Directed Evolution of Enzymes” was just accepted by Metabolic Engineering Communications. You can find the paper here.

Prof. Nair is appointed an adjunct position at Tufts Medical School!

Thanks to Prof. Ira Herman for championing my adjunct appointment at the CMDB (Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology) program at the Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences!

First seminar of the year

Thanks so much to Prof. Ira Herman for inviting me to give a talk at Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences CMDB program!

Tufts iGEM team wins Bronze in 2016 Jamboree!

Congratulations to the members of the Tufts Synthetic Biology 2016 iGEM Team for winning bronze in the Fall Jamboree in Boston!

Come support our team on Nov. 5, 2016 at Sound Bites in Somerville!

Sound Bites has generously agreed to share proceeds from its business between 2pm and 9pm on 11/5 to Tufts Synthetic Biology! More information on the Facebook page.
The program was organized through community fundraising site GroupRaise.

Joe, Todd, Venkatesh, and Prof. Nair attend the annual AIChE meeting in San Francisco, CA (Nov 13-18)

Joe in front of his poster on engineering probiotics to treat Galactosemia.

Todd presents his talk on engineering an E. coli consortium to efficiently assimilate hexoses in lignocellulosic biomass.

Venkatesh apparently gave a talk on engineering a synthetic regulon in yeast… but since there are no pictures confirming it I’m not sure it happened 🙂

Prof. Nair presents a talk on Todd’s project on engineering bacteria as therapeutics to combat wound infections.

Prof. Nair meets up with current and former colleagues from Huimin Zhao‘s (UIUC) lab including Zengyi Shao (Iowa State), Tyler Johannes (U of Tulsa), Ee Lui Ang (A-STAR), Zhilei Chen (Texas A&M), and Edgar Goluch (Northeastern).

Dr. Nair named a 2016 NIH New Innovator!

Exciting news for the Nair lab! Dr. Nair just received the highly prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award! This award was specifically designed to support exceptionally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact. Thanks to all the lab members who worked so hard to provide the preliminary data for this proposal!

See the official announcement at the NIH website.
Additional announcements at Tufts Now!, Eureka Alert! @AAAS, and NewsWise.
Highlighted in tweets by the Tufts PR and Tufts President Anthony Monaco!

Todd presents at the Departmental 4th Year Student Seminar

Todd presents his research on engineering an E. coli hexose-utilizing microconsortium to the department.

Kelsey-Clare Gallagher (ChBE’18) joins the lab! Welcome Kelsey!