Aaron Love successfully defends his thesis! (Apr 24)
Congratulations to Aaron for successfully defending this thesis! Here’s a paper that’s a part of his body of work: Specific codons control cellular resources and fitness (2024) Science Advances.

Paper accepted in Biotechnology & Bioengineering! (Apr 15)
Todd’s & Jessica’s paper on production optimization and characterization of the landomycin class of natural products from Streptomyces sp. is now accepted! It’s a fantastic collaboration with Bennett and Mace labs in Chemistry and Lee lab in ChBE. (link)

Prof. Nair and Rana attend ACS BIOT in New Orleans, LA (Mar 17-21)
Rana presents her work on engineering PAL enzyme.
Prof. Nair presents 3 talks on yeast engineering, synthetic codon biasing, and spore engineering.

Prof. Nair presents a seminar at Lafayette College in Easton, PA (Mar 5)
Thanks to Profs. Michael Bertucci and Michael Senra for the invitation! (tweet)

Aaron’s paper is out in Science Advances! (Feb 21)
You can find “Specific codons control cellular resources and fitness” here (tweet).
Associated Tufts School of Engineering press-release.

Hannah You joins the lab! (Jan 17)
Hannah is majoring in biochemistry and will be working with Jessica Lee.

Aaron’s paper is FINALLY accepted! (Jan 3)
What an excellent New Year’s gift! Congratulations Aaron. The pre-print is here – the paper should be out in a few weeks.

A new collaborative manuscript is out now on bioRxiv! (Nov 12)
Our first foray into the world of natural products is a collaboration with Profs. Bennett, Mace, and Lee. We describe the optimization of biosynthesis and characterization of several key landomycins derived from Streptomyces spp. (link)

Nair goes to AIChE 2023 (Nov 5-8)
Prof. Nair is presenting work on codon use, and yeast engineering.

New grad students join the lab! (Nov 3)
Tyler Schult joins as a Biotech PhD student and is co-advised with Prof. Kyong Lee.
Behnia Shirazi joins as a Biotech PhD student.
Yiming Cai joins as a Biology MS student.
Read more about them here.