News

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!

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Congrats to Todd for completing his thesis proposal (May 4)!

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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!

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Congrats to Bruno for completing his thesis proposal (May 31)!

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.

 

 

 

 

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

Todd and Venkatesh present posters on their respective projects!

 

 

 

 

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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!

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

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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)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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).

 

 

 

 

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