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!
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July 2023
June 2023
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)
May 2023
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!
April 2023
Caravel Bio wins Tufts 100K Challenge! (Apr 13)
Congratulations to grad student Trevor Nicks (+ co-founder Emily Wenberg) for winning the Tufts $100k New Ventures Competition held at the Derby Entrepreneurship Center! His company, Caravel Bio, based on his thesis work will advance biomanufacturing using bacterial spores! (link)
