News - 2013

Calendar icon January 3, 2013

Dr. Zhan is on the editorial board of Journal of Biological Engineering.

Calendar icon January 29, 2013

Kandy, Fuchao, Whitney and Thomas presented at the Synthetic Biomanufacturing Institute Science & Technology Review Meeting.

Kandy, Thomas, and Whitney

Calendar icon January 31, 2013

Thomas and Whitney presented at the annual Utah Research on Capitol Hill.

Thomas and Whitney

Calendar icon February 21, 2013

Dr. Zhan was named 2012-2013 Outstanding Researcher of the Biological Engineering Department.

Calendar icon February 22, 2013

Tong's work on fungal PKS PTs has been accepted for publication in PNAS. Jia also contributed to this research. Congratulations!

Calendar icon March 8-9, 2013

Jia and Kandy gave oral presentations at the 2013 Institute of Biological Engineering Annual Conference in Raleigh, NC.

Jia
Kandy

Calendar icon March 9, 2013

Kandy won the Grand Prize in the graduate poster competition at the 2013 Institute of Biological Engineering Annual Conference. Congratulations!

Kandy
Kandy winning the Grand Prize in the graduate poster competition

Calendar icon March 26, 2013

Jia has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations!

Jia has successfully defended his PhD dissertation

Calendar icon April 1, 2013

Dayu and Fuchao's work on engineered production of fungal cyclooligomer depsipeptides in the yeast has been accepted for publication in Metabolic Engineering. Jiachen, Siyuan, David and Jia were also involved in this research. Congratulations!

Calendar icon April 5, 2013

Dr. Zhan has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Calendar icon May 6, 2013

The group welcomes Lei Sun to join the lab.

Calendar icon May 16, 2013

The work by Dayu, Fuchao and David on functional dissection and module swapping of fungal CODSs has been accepted for publication in ChemComm. Congratulations!

Calendar icon May 27, 2013

Annual joint gourp BBQ party at the Lundstrom Park.

Annual joint gourp BBQ party at the Lundstrom Park
Annual joint gourp BBQ party at the Lundstrom Park
Annual joint gourp BBQ party at the Lundstrom Park
Annual joint gourp BBQ party at the Lundstrom Park

Calendar icon July 8, 2013

Tong's work on fungal PKS TE domains has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Shuwei also contributed to this work. Congratulations!

Calendar icon July 10, 2013

Siyuan's work on the development of a novel phenylalanine ammonia-lyase screening assay has been accepted for publication in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Other contributing authors include Shuwei, Tong and Jia. Congratulations!

Calendar icon July 13, 2013

Goodbye party for Jia at Bear Lake.

party for Jia at Bear Lake

Calendar icon August 5, 2013

The work on the methyltransferase HerF in herboxidiene biosynthesis by Dayu, Fuchao, Shuwei, Lei and Siyuan has been accepted for publication in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters.

Calendar icon August 29, 2013

The work on the natural products from Sporotrichum laxum by Siyuan, Shuwei and Tong has been accepted for publication in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters.

Calendar icon Septemer 21, 2013

Kandy, Dayu, Fuchao and Siyuan attended the Hansen Retreat held in the American West Heritage Center.

Kandy
Dayu
Fuchao
American West Heritage Center