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May 2020

• Emily's successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
• Emily's manuscript Advances in G protein-coupled receptor high-throughput screening is accepted in Current Opinion in Biotechnology.

April 2020

• Our proposal Fueling a human Mission to Mars with our Georgia Tech colleagues Prof. Caroline Genzale (Mechanical Engineering), and Wenting Sun (Aerospace Engineering) is funded by NASA. Read the press release!

March 2020

• Emily's manuscript Screening for serotonin receptor 4 agonist using GPCR-based sensors in yeast is accepted in Methods in Molecular Biology: G-Protein Coupled Receptor Screening Assays.
  

February 2020

• Nick's Viewpoint Advancing the potential for the production of chemicals from carbon dioxide in Escherichia coli is published in Biochemistry.

November 2019

• Emily's manuscript Identification of three antimicrobials activating serotonin receptor 4 in colon cells is published in ACS Synthetic Biology. Read the press release!

August 2019

• Our proposal Synthetic cells that can learn without evolution with Profs, Carothers (University of Washington), Lakin (University of New Mexico), Chen (University of Santa Barbara) and Frow (Arizona State University) is funded by NSF. Read the press release here! 

The Peralta-Yahya group programs biological systems for the synthesis of fuels, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. We also program G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR)-based sensors for the detection of chemicals with applications from metabolic engineering to the elucidation of novel drugs

To do this we use principles, concepts and techniques from organic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and  engineering.

We are part of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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