Vikas and Aaron attend the Spring ACS BIOT meeting in San Diego, CA (Mar 19-24)

The group welcomes Joe Balkan! (Feb 28)
Joe is a sophomore majoring in Chemical Engineering and will be working on engineering synthetic heterotrophy in yeast.

Goodbye, and good luck to Vikas! (Feb 13)
After nearly 5 years, Vikas leaves the lab for a scientist position at St. Jude’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. But we still have a few exciting manuscripts together on the way – keep your eyes peeled!

An auspicious start to a new month! (Feb 3)
Bec Condriti passes her qualifying exam! Congratulations, Bec!

A twofer Friday! (Jan 19)
A real good Friday! Jessica Lee passed her qualifying exam and Vikas + Todd’s PAL DMS manuscript got accepted in ACS Catalysis today (link)! Congratulation all around!

Back with stricter rules! (Jan 3)
We start the new semester with stricter guidelines for COVID – 3x pooled testing/week and high-efficiency masks only! It’s imperative to avoid another shutdown, so testing and PPE is the only way!

It’s a wrap! (Dec 22)
The group meets for the final time in 2021 before everyone disperses for winter break. It was good to end the year with a group lunch and a white elephant gift exchange. Trevor and Jack could not make it as they had already left campus and Todd joined us over Zoom for the gift exchange.

Congratulations to Vikas and Todd on their new paper! (Dec 16)
The paper discusses how biosensor-guided directed evolution leads to false positives and how to overcome the drawbacks to successfully perform directed evolution using PAL as a test case (link to paper).

The Nair lab goes to the annual AIChE meeting… in downtown Boston! (Nov 7-12)
Sean and Prof. Nair will present a talk each whereas Vikas will present two talks! (tweet1, tweet2, tweet3)

Prof. Nair is also organizing a session on Synthetic Biology tool development. (tweet)