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!
- 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.
2016
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
March 2016
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
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
cember 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 2015
June 2015
Prof. Peralta-Yahya presents the laboratory's work at the GRC Bioorganic and Synthetic Biology conferences.
May 2015
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!
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 2015
- 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!
June 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
October 2014
Prof. Peralta-Yahya receives the 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award!
August 2014
Amy receives a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship!
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
Prof. Peralta-Yahya receives the Dupont Young Professor for Scientific Innovation Award!
April 2014
Stephen and Amy pass their second year defense!
March 2014
February 2014
Stephen's paper "Microbial synthesis of pinene" is accepted in ACS Synthetic Biology!
January 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 2014
Prof. Peralta-Yahya receives the Dupont Young Professor for Scientific Innovation Award!
April 2014
Stephen and Amy pass their second year defense!
March 2014
- 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!
January 2014
- 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.
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!
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!