Category: Announcements
Professor Tullman-Ercek convenes a session at ASM Microbe 2017
Professor Tullman-Ercek was invited to the ASM Microbe 2017 conference. There, she gave a talk and was a convener of a session on bacterial microcompartments (“Microbial Nanocompartments: Funct... Read More
Congratulations to Mary on earning her PhD!
Mary Slininger Lee earned her PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering this week! Mary worked in the nanobioreactors sub group, specifically focusing on engineering the PDU microcompartments.... Read More
Improving encapsulated pathway behavior in bacterial microcompartments
Mary recently submitted a manuscript to bioRxiv that can be found here. It describes how the engineering of different shell proteins can affect the behavior of pathways in bacterial microcompartments ... Read More
Team DTE goes traveling for conferences
This year, various member of Team DTE will be traveling around the globe to give talks at conferences. Be sure to catch them at these exciting conferences and workshops. Team DTE EBRC Spring Retreat 2... Read More
In NU Helix: Synthetic Biology: Engineering or Biology?
Han Teng recently wrote a piece about what is synthetic biology that was published on NU’s Helix Magazine. Helix Magazine is an online science magazine by Science in Society. It also serves as ... Read More
Using synthetic biology in extreme environments
Jay Bevington, the restless Visiting Scholar at our lab, has once again decided to test the limits of his abilities. This time Jay has set his sights on trying to use synthetic biology in extreme envi... Read More
Jay Enters NASA’s Mars Simulation Habitat
From NPR: The University of Hawaii runs an experiment funded by NASA entitled HI-SEAS. In HI-SEAS, 6 people live in a habitat designed to simulate a mission on Mars for 8 months. Jay, a visiting schol... Read More
MBP Students join the lab
This Spring Quarter, DTE lab sees the addition of 4 new Masters of Biotechnology students – Amber, Maria, Shobhit and Zachary. They will be working with their respective lab mentors to get a fla... Read More