Congratulations to Harshith Subramanian and Siddhant Prabhu for each graduating with a Masters in Biotechnology Program! Best of luck to both of you!

The Computationalists (and Bradley) have yet again vanquished the Experimentalists in a riveting 2-1 victory, once more confirming their superiority in physical, mental, and pizza-making prowess.

 

Jennifer Greene successfully defended her PhD thesis.  Congratulations and best wishes Jennifer!

Shanice Taylor successfully defended her MS thesis.  Congratulations  and best wishes Shanice!

Peter Su successfully defended his MS thesis and will begin working at Zymergen in Emeryville, CA in December.  Congratulations and best wishes to Peter!

Namita Bhan: Methods for Development and Characterization of DNA Polymerase Based Bio-Recorders

Will Bothfeld: Non-Growth Metabolism in Synthetic Auxotrophic Knockouts of Escherichia coli for Chemical Production

Bradley Biggs: Engineering a DNA Polymerase to Become a Calcium-Sensitive Biosensor/Recording Device

Shu Huang: Engineering of ADP1 for Production of Vanillin from Lignin

Tyler Lazar: Removal of Ribosome Stalling Motifs to Improve Oxygenation of Key Intermediate in the Taxol Pathway

Stephen Lillington: Understanding Preferential Consumption of Aromatic Compounds in Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1

 

Congratulations to Stephen Lillington for bringing home first place in  the Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology VI category at the 2017 AIChE Undergraduate Student Poster Competition!

(Stephen is pictured at the award ceremony 3rd from the left)

 

 

 

Jon Strutz has just won an ARCS award (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) from the Illinois Chapter of the ARCS Foundation for 2017 – 2018.  Jon will be presenting a poster to the foundation in October. Congratulations!

Ted Cybulski successfully defended his PhD thesis and will begin rotations in the Feinberg School of Medicine.  Congratulations Ted!  Before long, … Dr. Dr. Cybulski!

Keith has been promoted to Associate Professor beginning September 1, 2017.  Congratulations!