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April 2019
  • Emily's manuscript on the deorphanization of human olfactory receptors in yeast is accepted in Biochemistry. Congratulations!
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 synthetic cells for the production of plant natural products!
  • Our lab is awarded an NIH equipment supplement to accelerate our cell screening efforts.
The Peralta-Yahya research group engineers biological systems for the detection of chemical and biomolecules using G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), in particular olfactory receptors. We use these GPCR-based sensors for a variety of applications, including the identification of novel gut metabolites and the detection of chemical threats.  To do this we use concepts and techniques from biochemistry and chemical 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.