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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!
• Submit your graduate application to the GaTech Chemistry and Biochemistry program. The deadline is December 15th.
  

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 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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