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August 2018
  • Aurelia Allen joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
July 2018 June 2018
  • Paul Branham and Kaitlyn Hoover join the group as a research technicians. Welcome!
  • Rebecca Howie joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
May 2018 April 2018
  • Widi Sugianto joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
December 2017 November 2017
  • Hanfei Wang joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya and Prof. Williams (NC State) host the Synthetic Biology Symposium at SERMACS on Thursday November 9th. Here is the schedule.
October 2017
  • Anita Minniefield joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents at AIChE
September 2017
  • We are looking for two postdocs to join our lab!                     Apply here
August 2017
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya wins the NIH MIRA Award!
  • Amy successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
  • Amy's paper is published in Biochemistry!
The Peralta-Yahya research group is part of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

We develop technologies to more rapidly and effectively engineer biological systems for chemical synthesis. To do this we use concepts and techniques from protein engineering, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and synthetic chemistry.

Our work focuses on two research areas: the development of GPCR-based chemical sensors, and the microbial production of alkaloids, fuels and commodity chemicals.