2018
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.
August 2018
  • Aurelia Allen joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
July 2018 June 2018
  • Paul Branham and Kaitlyn Hoover join the group as a research technicians. Welcome!
  • Rebecca Howie joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!
May 2018 April 2018
  • Widi Sugianto joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
2017
December 2017 November 2017
  • 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.
October 2017
  • Anita Minniefield joins the group as a research technician. Welcome!
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents at AIChE
September 2017
  • We are looking for two postdocs to join our lab!             
August 2017
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya wins the NIH MIRA Award!
  • Amy successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
  • Amy's paper is published in Biochemistry!
July 2017
  • 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!
June 2017​
  • 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.
May 2017
  • Emily Yasi, Nakia Melecio and Prof. Peralta-Yahya have been accepted to the NSF I-CORPS program!
March 2017
  • Nick's review is accepted in Current Opinion in Biotechnology!
February 2017
  • Sara Aval joins the lab as a first year Chemistry graduate student!
January 2017
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents at ICBE.

2016

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December 2016
  • Amy's perspective is accepted in Nature Chemical Biology!
November 2016
  • 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"!
October 2016
  • New graduate student Nick Kruyer joins the lab!
August 2016
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya wins the Samsung Global Research Outreach competition in the field of bioremediation!
July 2016
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents the laboratory's work at SEED and SIMB!
  • Stephen and Emily present posters at the GRC Biocatalysis!
June 2016
  • Dr. Kuntal Mukherjee moves on and goes to work with Prof. Matthew Torres at Georgia Tech. Good Luck!
May 2016
  • 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

2015

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December 2015
  • Kuntal's and Souryadeep's article is chosen for the cover of the December issue of ACS Synthetic Biology!
November 2015
  • 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
September 2015
  • Emily Yasi and Katherine Francois present their research at the SynBERc meeting.
August 2015
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya and Emily Yasi teach at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Synthetic Biology course!
July 2015June 2015
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents the laboratory's work at the GRC Bioorganic and Synthetic Biology conferences.
May 2015
  • 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!
March 2015
  • Prof. Peralta-Yahya receives Georgia Tech's Blanchard fellowship!
February 2015
  • 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!

2014

November 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!
October 2014
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!
July 2014
  • 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.
June 2014
  • Amy receives the ACS Biological Chemistry Division Travel Award to Attend the 248th ACS meeting in San Francisco!
  • Souryadeep successfully defends his Masters Thesis!
May 2014April 2014
  • Stephen and Amy pass their second year defense!
March 2014
February 2014January 2014
  • Jonathan Striepen, Morgan Rex and Wen Liu join the lab as undergraduate researchers.

2012-2013

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!
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