by nejoshi | Sep 17, 2022 | News
A much belated congratulations to Tim Storms for completing his undergraduate capstone project, entitled “Identifying Sources of Cellular Stress in the E. coli Curli Secretion Pathway” and graduating with a B.S. in Biochemistry.
by nejoshi | Sep 15, 2022 | News, Publications
Congrats to Ilia Gelfat, M.B. Avinash, Hann Tu, and all the other co-authors on our new paper out in PLoS Pathogens! The paper describes the use of engineered protein (curli) fibers, produced by a probiotic bacterium to block the infection of enteric pathogens. We...
by nejoshi | Nov 23, 2021 | News, Publications
Congrats to Avinash Manjula-Basavanna and Anna Duraj-Thatte – co-first authors on a new paper in Nature Communications! The paper describes their efforts to engineer curli-fiber-producing bacteria to form a shear-thinning hydrogel that can be printed into...
by nejoshi | May 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to Dan Birnbaum and Ilia Gelfat, who both defended their PhD theses in the last week. Both Zoom defenses went very smoothly and their respective committees had no trouble agreeing that they passed!
by nejoshi | May 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Congrats to Dan Birnbaum and Avinash Manjula-Basavanna on their new publication “Hybrid Living Capsules Autonomously Produced by Engineered Bacteria”, out now in Advanced Science. You can find our author final draft before peer review can be read on...