Sean and Aaron present their work at the departmental “4th” year seminar series! (Oct 29)
Both did a fantastic job explaining their work to an audience with varied research interests without oversimplifying their work! Congrats, both!

Jessica Lee joins the group! (Oct 25)
Jessica is a candidate in the Biotechnology PhD program and joined Tufts after completing her BS in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from UC-Davis!

Another pre-print co-authored by Vikas is out on bioRxiv now! (Oct 14)
The paper’s a collaboration with the Van Deventer and Lee labs. It describes how yeast surface display can be used to See the preprint on bioRxiv.

A new pre-print by Vikas is out on bioRxiv now! (Oct 9)
The paper describes work on overcoming issues with biosensor-guided biocatalyst engineering. See the preprint on bioRxiv.

We took a new group picture! (Oct 5)
Updated here.

October 2021 group photo. (L-R) Front: Bec, Prof. Nair, Sean, Rana. Back: Trevor, Aaron, Vikas. missing: Todd, Jack

Nair lab members present at the virtual ACS BIOT meeting (Aug 22-26)
Vikas presented two talks, one on PAL and the other on yeast:

Sean presented a talk in yeast engineering:

Prof. Nair helps organize the 4 sessions in the Protein Engineering Area.

Bec Condrutti joins the group! (Jul 1)
Bec is part of the CMDB program at Tufts GSBS – the first to join the group from this program. Welcome, Bec!!

A new manuscript on PAL engineering + characteriation is live! (Jun 7)
The work was initiated by Karishma, led by Vikas and Todd, and was done in collaboration with friends at Kcat Enzymatic. It describes deep mutational scanning, characterization, and engineering of PAL. It’s now live on bioRxiv! Here’s a Twitter thread with a brief summary.

Debika and Athreya leave the group (Apr 30)
Debika leaves the group for a second post-doc with Prof. Kelsi Sandoz (Cornell). Athreya graduated with a B.S. in ChE and accepted a job at Pfizer. Good luck to both of you!

New group photo on Zoom (Apr 28)
Hopefully, the next one is in-person, again!

Rana passes her qualifying exam! (Apr 23)
Congratulations to Rana for passing her Ph.D. qualifying exam!