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September 2018
  • Our lab is part of one of the three winning Agile BioFoundry projects funded by DOE.
  • Our lab, the Carothers lab (University of Washington) and the Noireaux lab (University of Minnesota) are awarded an NSF grant to develop a synthetic cell for the production of plant natural products!
  • Our lab is awarded an NIH equipment supplement to accelerate our cell screening efforts.
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!
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.