Announcements

Undergraduate students Lee Bristol (SynBREU) and Abi Lopez Alonso (CLP summer student) and MRSEC RET teacher Tiffany Johnson join the lab for the summer.

Congratulations to our Master’s in Biotechnology students, Emily Gamero and Ashleigh Acker, on their graduation!

DTE lab welcomes Ph.D. students Shiqi Liang, Jake Miller, and Rogelio Alvarado to join our group.

Maddie Joseph is selected for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Maddie!

Julie’s paper about on constitutively active type III secretion systems was published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Congratulations to Dr. Nolan Kennedy on passing his Ph.D. defense!

Bon’s paper about systematic engineering of virus-like particles was published in Virology

DTE lab welcomes Ph.D. students Maddie Joseph (co-advised with the Dunn lab) and Annie Gomez (co-advised with the Olvera de la Cruz lab) to join our group.

Elizabeth Johnson and Jordan Summers are selected as Synthetic Biology Across Scales and Biotechnology Training Program trainees. Congratulations Elizabeth and Jordan!

Daniel de Castro Assumpcao is selected as a Chemistry of Life processes trainee. Congratulations Daniel!

Undergraduate REU students Mac Catanag and Swetha Chandrasekar (SynBREU) and Lydia Taylor (MRSEC REU) join the lab for the summer.

Congratulation to Dr. Sam Leach on passing his Ph.D. thesis defense!

DTE lab welcomes Ph.D. students Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel de Castro Assumpcao, and Jordan Summers to join our group.

Nolan, Carrie, and Charlotte’s paper on the role of the Pdu microcompartment shell protein PduB was published in Journal of Bacteriology

Congratulations to Dr. Charlotte Abrahamson on passing her Ph.D. thesis defense!

Elizabeth Johnson receives an NSF GRFP honorable mention. Congratulations Elizabeth!

Our recent paper on high-throughput adhesion screening has been featured on McCormick Engineering News

DTE lab welcomes Brett Palmero to join our group

Yusu’s paper on high-throughput screening test for adhesion in soft materials using centrifugation has been published on ACS Central Science

Check out our recent review on bacterial microcompartments: tiny organelles with big potential

Congrats to Edward Wen on passing his master thesis defense!

Nolan and Carrie’s paper on computational and experimental approaches to control bacterial microcompartment assembly has been published in ACS Central Science

Congrats Dr. Taylor Nichols on passing her thesis defense and becoming a Ph.D.!

Lisa’s paper on optimized growth medium for recombinant protein secretion via Salmonella type III secretion system is published in Microbial Cell Factories

Nolan and Svet’s paper on discovering roles of shell proteins PduA and PduJ in bacterial microcompartment assembly has been published in the Journal of Molecular Biology

Steph, Emily, and Bon’s paper on Engineering a Virus-like Particle to Display Peptide Insertions Using an Apparent Fitness Landscape is published in Biomacromolecules

Taylor and Nolan’s paper on a genomic integration platform for heterologous cargo encapsulation in 1, 2-propanediol utilization bacterial microcompartments has been published in Biochemical Engineering Journal

Nolan, Taylor and Carrie’s paper on apparent size and morphology of bacterial microcompartments varies with technique has been published in PloS one

Our methods chapter on cargo encapsulation in bacterial microcompartments is now available!

Nolan, Bon, and Professor Tullman-Ercek visit high school students to talk about careers in chemical engineering and biology.

Professor Tullman-Ercek presented at the 18th annual PepTalk conference.