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...
by Ilia | Jul 20, 2020 | News
We are re-opening the lab after a pandemic-related closure. We are eager to resume research that has been stalled for many months and lucky to have a lab layout conducive to distancing protocols. Masks on, everyone! (Picture credit: Pixnio.com)
by Ilia | May 6, 2020 | News
Earlier this year, our lab had the honor of traveling to Washington D.C. to receive the Grand Prize in The NSF 2026 Idea Machine competition. For this challenge, each team was tasked with formulating and presenting a “Big Idea” – a big-picture vision...
