group news
June 2007: Welcome to Nancy Monson and Tamsen Polly. Nancy is a high-school teacher from Sunset HS (Beaverton) who will spend the next two summers in the lab on a Partners in Science grant from the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Tamsen Polly is a high school student from Sherwood HS who will spend the summer in the lab as an intern through the Apprenticeship in Science and Engineering program (ASE) of Saturday Academy.
May 2007. Congratulations to Steven Van Lanen (Ph.D. ’03), who just accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky. Steve is finishing up a very productive post-doc with Professor Ben Shen at the University of Wisconsin and will start his new position at Kentucky in December.
May 2007: Welcome to Nathalie Safraoui, who joins the lab for the summer as an International Visiting Scholar after completing her studies at Université Paris-Sud, in Orsay, France.
May 2007: Congratulations to Rowaida Al-Eryani on her successful M.S. thesis defense! She’s headed to UT Southwestern to work as a research assistant in the lab of Professor Haydn Ball.
May 2007. Congratulations to Bobby Lee on his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense! He’s off to a post-doc in Professor Sunny Zhou’s lab at the Barnett Institute at Northeastern University.
March 2007. The lab was awarded a new grant from NASA!! This project focuses on the potential role of archaeosine in the structural stability of archaeal tRNA.
October 30th, 2006. QuZyme, LLC is a winner of the NSF-sponsored Lab2Market technology disclosure competition for work to develop the nitrile reductase QueF as an industrial biocatalyst.
October 2006. Congratulations to Vimbai Masiyanise for passing her comprehensive exams on the first try and a year ahead of schedule!
June, 2006. QuZyme, LLC is awarded a phase I SBIR from the NIH to investigate the feasibility of engineering the nitrile reductase QueF for use as an industrial biocatalyst. |
