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September 2017
  • We are looking for two postdocs to join our lab!                     E-mail your CV to Prof. Peralta-Yahya.
August 2017
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya wins the NIH MIRA Award!
  • Amy successfully defends her thesis.                     Congratulations Dr. Ehrenworth!
  • Amy's paper is published in Biochemistry!
July 2017
  • We have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher with mammalian cell biology expertise! Please send your CV and a cover letter to Prof. Peralta-Yahya.
  • Amy's paper is accepted in Biotechnology and Bioengineering!
June 2017​
  • Stephen is selected to participate at Dow's BEST symposium!
  • Adam receives the President's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA), Congratulations!
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya gives a talk at the Bioorganic Chemistry GRC.

May 2017
Emily Yasi, Nakia Melecio and Prof. Peralta-Yahya have been accepted to the NSF I-CORPS program!

March 2017
Nick's review is accepted in Current Opinion in Biotechnology!

February 2017
Sara joins the lab as a first year Chemistry graduate student!

January 2017
Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents at the ICBE conference!
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.