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!