News
Welcome incoming graduate class!
Welcome to the incoming graduate cohort at Northeastern Chemistry and Chemical Biology! With our normal Open House event for admitted students being virtual due to the pandemic, we created a quick video to introduce you to our lab. [video width="1280" height="720"...
New publication on probiotic engineering
Congrats to Ilia Gelfat, Anton Kan, Siva Emani, and Pichet (Bom) Praveschotinunt on their new publication out in ACS Synthetic Biology! It describes the engineering of a plasmid system that is compatible with a probiotic E. coli strain (Nissle 1917) and is retained...
Preprint on Stiff Living Materials
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 biomass. The...
Welcome to the lab, Ahmed!
We welcome Ahmed Sami Helal Ali Elwakeil to the lab! Ahmed is a postdoc who will be studying metal binding interactions with microbial biomass.
New NSF Grant
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 Commons)
Back to the Lab
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)
Joshi Lab members win Grand Prize in NSF 2026 Idea Machine competition
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 for how advancing...
The Joshi Lab moves to Northeastern
January 2020 marked a new chapter for the Joshi Lab, as the laboratory moved from its former Wyss Institute location to Northeastern University. The lab was featured in an article for Northeastern College of Science News - check it out here.