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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! We are thrilled to start working on this new project.

June 2019

• Prof. Peralta-Yahya participates in the Interagency Working Group on Biological Data Sharing Workshop
• We welcome two undergraduate students this summer. Jack Williams (Carleton College) and Liz Marquez-Ortiz (Macalester College). Stay tuned to read about their research!
• The Engineering Biology Research Roadmap is out! Prof. Peralta-Yahya was the Technical Theme Lead for Host and Consortia Engineering. Read the press release!
• Dr. Howie participates in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course in Metabolomics.

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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.

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