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.

Prof. Nair gives an invited seminar at UMass-Amherst (Sept 19)
The talk on engineering yeast metabolism covered topics described in Venkatesh’s, Vikas’, and Sean’s papers. Link to announcement on X/Twitter. Thanks to Prof. Lauren Andrews for inviting me!

Sean’s and Vikas’ papers are highlighted by Tufts Now! (Jul 18)
Thanks to Mike Silver for covering our work (paper 1, paper 2) and writing an excellent summary piece for Tufts Now.

The lab goes to Boston Bacterial Meeting (June 12-13)
Aaron presents a poster on codon use in E. coli and wins the best poster award!! Congratulations, Aaron!

Prof. Nair attends Metabolic Engineering 15 in Singapore (June 11-15)
Prof. Nair presents the lab’s work on yeast engineering (papers 1, 2, 3) and posters on spore and codon use engineering. Met some old friends and colleagues and made some new friends, too!

Prof. Nair attends SEED in LA (Mar 31 – Jun 2)
Prof. Nair presents the lab’s work on yeast engineering (papers 1, 2, 3) and posters on spore and codon use engineering. (tweet)

Sean and Rana attend SynBioBeta (May 23-25)!
Sean won a departmental scholarship to cover his costs and Rana received funds from SynBioBeta to attend the meeting!
links to tweets: 1, 2

Trevor and Sean graduate! (May 20)
Congratulations to Trevor Nicks and Sean Sullivan for graduating from the lab with their PhDs! Trevor will work on his company, Caravel Bio and Sean will be moving to NC to work for Novozymes!