Divya was awarded a summer fellowship from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for her proposal “Developing a Fast-Acting Readout for a Yeast-based Healthcare Diagnostic.”
The same proposal was awarded a grant from Chemistry of Life Processes. Only 3 awards are made per year for this competitive research fellowship.
CLP
Congratulations Divya!
Keith, Matt, and collaborator, Linda Broadbelt, all featured in latest issue of CenterPiece. Download issue here (PDF); article starts on page 16.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded two more Grand Challenge Exploration grants to projects that are collaboration between Tyo Lab, Leonard Lab, and Matouschek Lab.
Keith Tyo and Christina Smolke guest edited a special issue of Metabolic Engineering Journal on developments in Synthetic Biology that will impact the way we engineer organisms for chemicals production.
Synthetic Biology: New Methodologies and Applications for Metabolic Engineering
Thanks so much to all the contributors!
Michael Sherer has won a Northwestern Undergraduate Research Grant (URG) for his proposal on engineering and analysis of yeast cell wall permeability.
Michael Reddick has won a summer REU in Dr. Todd Martin’s lab at UW-Madison.
Great Work!
Congrats to Keith and the Tyo family on a new daughter! Welcome, Olive Evangeline Tyo!
Michelle Garcia and Grant Nicholas join the Tyo lab as research assistants. Welcome!
webFBA, an easy-to-use flux balance analysis tool for E. coli and yeast was released on Jan. 1, 2012. Harman Singh and Karthik Sekar developed the website.
Feel free to contact us if you would like help using the tool
Welcome to Patrick, Michelle, Angela, Dante, Michael, and Divya to the Tyo lab!
Patrick and Angela come through the Masters in Biotechnology Program, Michelle through the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program, and Dante through the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Michael and Divya are both Northwestern Undergraduates. We look forward to having them around!
Professors Keith EJ Tyo (Northwestern), Konrad Kording (Northwestern), Doug Bishop (Univ. of Chicago), and Lucia Rothman-Dennes (Univ. of Chicago) were awarded a collaborative grant for the project ‘A Molecular Chart Recorder.’