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!
- 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!
- 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.
- Nick goes on to a summer internship at Zymergen.
- Emily's manuscript Rapid deorphanization of human olfactory receptors in yeast is published in Biochemistry. Congratulations!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
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.
- Aurelia Allen joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
- We are hiring a research technician to join our group. Join us!
- Paul Branham and Kaitlyn Hoover join the group as a research technicians. Welcome!
- Rebecca Howie joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents at SEED 2018
- Sara Eisen joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
- Stephen's and Adam's article on Matching protein interfaces for improved medium-chain fatty acid production is published in ACS Synthetic Biology!
- Widi Sugianto joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
December 2017
- Stephen successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
- Stephen's review on the Microbial synthesis of medium-chain chemicals from renewables is published in Nature Biotechnology!
- Hanfei Wang joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya and Prof. Williams (NC State) host the Synthetic Biology Symposium at SERMACS on Thursday November 9th. Here is the schedule.
- Anita Minniefield joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents at AIChE
- We are looking for two postdocs to join our lab!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya wins the NIH MIRA Award!
- Amy successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
- Amy's paper is published in Biochemistry!
- 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!
- 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.
- Emily Yasi, Nakia Melecio and Prof. Peralta-Yahya have been accepted to the NSF I-CORPS program!
- Nick's review is accepted in Current Opinion in Biotechnology!
- Sara Aval joins the lab as a first year Chemistry graduate student!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents at ICBE.
December 2016
March 2016
January 2016
- Amy's perspective is accepted in Nature Chemical Biology!
- Emily wins the Helmsley Fellowship to attend the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course on Advanced Sequence Technologies and Applications. Congratulations!
- Amy gives a talk at the AIChE meeting in the session "Advances and Biocatalysis and Biosynthesis"!
- New graduate student Nick Kruyer joins the lab!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya wins the Samsung Global Research Outreach competition in the field of bioremediation!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents the laboratory's work at SEED and SIMB!
- Stephen and Emily present posters at the GRC Biocatalysis!
- Dr. Kuntal Mukherjee moves on and goes to work with Prof. Matthew Torres at Georgia Tech. Good Luck!
- Vincent Peterson graduates with a M.S. in Chemistry. Congratulations! He is going to Emory to work with Prof. Ichiro Matsumura.
- Emily passes her Ph.D. qualifying exams. Congratulations!
March 2016
- Amy Ehrenworth and Kuntal Mukherjee gave presentations at the Synberc Spring meeting in Berkeley, California.
- Stephen Sarria gave a talk on GPCR-based chemical sensors at the ACS Spring meeting in San Diego, California.
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya gave a talk on the microbial synthesis of modified alkaloids at the ACS Spring meeting in San Diego, California.
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya gave an invited talk at the US-Indo workshop on Cell Factories at IIT Bombay in Mumbai, India
January 2016
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya is selected as a 2016 Kavli Fellow by the U.S. National Academy of Science. She will be attending the 2016 German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium to be held in March 2016 in Potsdam, Germany.
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya wins the Keystone Symposium Early Career Investigator Travel Award and will be presenting the groups' results at the Keystone Symposium on GPCRs in February 2016.
- The lab's recent articles are featured by the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience: http://petitinstitute.gatech.edu/double-play-peralta-yahya
December 2015
- Kuntal's and Souryadeep's article is chosen for the cover of the December issue of ACS Synthetic Biology!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents the laboratory's work on GPCR-based sensors at the Frontiers of Biochemistry: Biofuels and Biomaterials Symposium at the University of Georgia
- Emily Yasi and Katherine Francois present their research at the SynBERc meeting.
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya and Emily Yasi teach at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Synthetic Biology course!
- Stephen presents a poster at the 29th Annual Protein Society Symposium in Barcelona, Spain!
- Amy's article on the use of a Pterin-dependent mono-oxidation strategy for the synthesis of alkaloids is published in ACS Synthetic Biology!
- Stephen receives a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents the laboratory's work at the GRC Bioorganic and Synthetic Biology conferences.
- REU student Robyn Park joins the lab!
- The Renewable Bioproducts Institute awards the Peralta-Yahya laboratory a research fellowship to work on upgrading lignin-derived monomers into value added chemicals!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya writes a News & Views article for Nature Chemical Biology highlighting De Loache et al.'s work using a biosensor to engineer an alkaloid biosynthetic pathway.
- Kuntal's and Souryadeep's article on the development of GPCR-based chemical biosensors for medium-chain fatty acids is published in ACS Synthetic Biology!
- Amy wins the SynBERC Student & Postdoc Association travel award to attend the Gordon Research Conference in Synthetic biology this Summer!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya receives Georgia Tech's Blanchard fellowship!
- Proposal to construct a 350-member library of GPCR-based sensors to detect biofuel molecules gets accepted!
- New research technicians Amy Wong and R. Warren Boger join the lab!
November 2014
Prof. Peralta-Yahya receives the 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award!
August 2014
February 2014
- New graduate students Emily Yasi, Katherine Francois, and Brian Liu join the lab!
- Stephen presents a poster at the 2014 AIChE annual meeting in Atlanta, GA.
- Morgan and Jonathan present posters at the 2014 Undergraduate Student Poster Competition at the 2014 AIChE annual meeting in Atlanta.
- Amy wins a travel award from the Georgia Tech Women in Chemistry committee!
Prof. Peralta-Yahya receives the 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award!
August 2014
- Vincent and Kuntal present posters at the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) meeting in Boston
- Amy presents a poster at the 248th ACS national meeting in San Francisco.
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya gives a talk at the 248th ACS national meeting in San Francisco. Her talk entitled "Accelerating the engineering of chemical-producing microbes using chemical biosensors" was given in the session "Synthetic Biology for Chemical Synthesis" in the Biological Chemistry Division
- Amy receives a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship!
- Mrs Kathryn Mullen, Israel Galvan, Jimmy Padilla, and Fernando Toledo from Meadow Creek High School join us to do summer research
- Summer First Fellow, Rena Ingram, joins us to do summer research
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya gives a Young Investigator Talk at the Biocatalysis GRC.
- Stephen presents a poster at the Biocatalysis GRC.
- Amy receives the ACS Biological Chemistry Division Travel Award to Attend the 248th ACS meeting in San Francisco!
- Souryadeep successfully defends his Masters Thesis!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya receives the Dupont Young Professor for Scientific Innovation Award!
- Stephen and Amy pass their second year defense!
- Stephen receives the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship to attend the Gordon Research Conference in Biocatalysis!
- Amy wins the poster award at the Southeastern Regional Yeast Meeting. Congratulations!
- Amy, Souryadeep and Vincent present posters at SERYM 2014.
- Amy receives an NSF-MCB travel award to attend the SouthEastern Regional Yeast Meeting (SERYM) in Nashville!
February 2014
- Stephen's paper "Microbial synthesis of pinene" is accepted in ACS Synthetic Biology!
- Prof. Peralta-Yahya will be one of five instructors at the Cold Spring Harbor Course in Synthetic Biology this summer.
- Jonathan Striepen, Morgan Rex and Wen Liu join the lab as undergraduate researchers.
November 2013
Vincent Peterson joins the lab!
August 2013
Amy receives a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship!
November 2012
Amy Ehrenworth (Chem), Stephen Sarria (Chem) and Souryadeep Bhattacharyya (ChBE) join the laboratory!
August 2012
Stephen Sarria receives a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship!
Vincent Peterson joins the lab!
August 2013
Amy receives a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship!
November 2012
Amy Ehrenworth (Chem), Stephen Sarria (Chem) and Souryadeep Bhattacharyya (ChBE) join the laboratory!
August 2012
Stephen Sarria receives a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship!