by Neel | 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 Neel | 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 Neel | 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 Neel | Sep 28, 2020 | News
Check out our recent preprint entitled “Robust, Self-Regeneratable Living Materials”! This work, by Avinash Manjula-Basavanna and Anna Duraj-Thatte, describes the fabrication of macroscopic, stiff, semi-transparent materials directly from drying microbial...
by Ilia | Jul 20, 2020 | News
We welcome Ahmed Sami Helal Ali Elwakeil to the lab! Ahmed is a postdoc who will be studying metal binding interactions with microbial biomass.
by Ilia | Jul 20, 2020 | News
We got a new NSF grant from the Division of Materials Research to explore the feasibility of creating bioplastics from engineered microbes! Check out our positions page if you are interested in a position in the lab in this area. (Picture credit: Wikimedia...
