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Presenting research at SIMB Annual Meeting
Several of our projects were presented as posters at the 2017 SIMB Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Andrew Flores and Gavin Kurgan (from Xuan Wang’s group) presented results from our collaborative…
Newly Minted Ph.D.s!
A huge congrats to Drs. Thompson and Staggs, our two most recent Ph.D. grads, both of whom successfully defended their respective theses last week! We wish you luck as you head off to bigger and…
New NSF Project Awarded
We are excited to be kicking off a new NSF project entitled ‘Biological Auto-Enhancement of CO2 Absorption for Improved Cyanobacterial Growth and Biofuel Production’! This 3-year grant was…
Congrats 2017 CHE Graduates!
Congrats to our undergraduate researchers Chris Gregson, Zeynep Ayla, and Kaleigh Johnson, as well as the rest of the Class of 2017! Kaleigh received the special honor of being selected as the…
Prof. Yuji Aso joins us from KIT!
Prof. Aso (Kyoto Inst. of Technology) will spend a year with us, working on various projects. Welcome!
ARCS fellowship from Michael!
PhD Student Michael Machas has been named an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholar for 2017-2018. Congrats! Learn more about ARCS Scholars at ASU.
Dr. Chris Jones joins the Group!
Chris comes to us from the Pfleger Lab at U of Wisconsin to work on engineering biofuel production in Synechocystis!
Karthika Defends M.S. Thesis!
Congrats to Karthika on her recent successful defense!
SIMB 2016
We will be presenting our research at SIMB 2016 in New Orleans, LA.
New DOE project coming soon!
We are part of a team recently selected for biofuels funding by the DOE (BETO ‘Bioincubator’). This project will engineer cyanobacteria for the photosynthetic production of ethyl laurate – a…